Farms: Over 150 Acres

Farms: Over 150 Acres

Want to earn part of all your living from a farm? You are at the right place. Our farming areas all have a long future ahead of them and we can’t wait to welcome you to the neighborhood. Please look under the sub pages to find the exciting properties that we can offer. Please contact us for aerial maps, an address, or for additional pictures. If you have questions, by all means ask. We are here to make your buying experience a great one! Note: if you don’t need as large an acreage or need something commercially viable, also check out what we have under “Country Living“.
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#1169 - Washington County ON HOLD while buyer gets financing
- Scenic, 4000' river frontage as well as mountain views
- 241.5 acres, w/river flats
- Multiple homes
- 8 Barns
- Most buildings are nearly new

       Highly scenic farm w/multiple homes features 31 acres of river flats, land capable of a 30 ton corn yield. Many buildings, mostly new. 3671’ of road frontage and another 4100 ‘on the Mettawee River, where one can swim and fish. A low 250’ elevation means far warmer weather and a longer growing season than you’d expect this far north. Mountain views are everywhere. It sports varied terrain with maybe 1/2 wooded. There are small amounts of Wetlands and a never-failing spring that easily services all homes and dairy barns. 70 acres of Organic-certified cropland + pastures. As the owners have lots of land to rent nearby, they pasture some of their own crop land. A neighbor allows them to use his crop land and in exchange gets a few hours of help from the owners and the right to tap some of their sugar bush, a handshake agreement. There are 1700 taps and a sugar house on the property. There are some new seedings and 4.5 acres of winter spells and almost no stones here. Vergennes clay soil on the uplands and Hamlin & Teel silt loams on the river bottom.
       There are two complete sets of buildings, I will discuss them separately as they are separated by the road, which would make an obvious division line if a new owner wished to subdivide.
       The Main Side - The main home is < 7 years old as are all the buildings other than part of the barn. The home sits well off the road and has ~2300 ft2 of living space + a huge laundry / storage room in addition. A 10’ wide front porch affords wood and ice storage underneath it. Downstairs, all floors are red oak with painted plyboard upstairs, where are located 4 bedrooms and a storage room (positioned to serve as an upstairs bath). Downstairs, there is an open floor plan with the kitchen, dining area and living rooms forming an “L”. Double doors open to the master bedroom. And a pantry is off the kitchen.
       The dairy barn is 38x66’ with 31 tie stalls; a milk house and ice house are attached on one side (with a 16’ leanto). On the other side, a hay barn (the only old building here) is attached. It is 36x100’ and has a 16’ leanto addition for machinery storage. There are 12x45 and 14x50’ silos. 8 straight horse stalls are also in the barn.
       There are many like-new barns for other purposes: a 28x40’ barn intended to be used as a shop, a 26x60’ machinery shed (it also has 4 straight horse stalls), a 32x50’ bandsaw mill, and a 20x72’ circular saw mill with attached sawdust room. There is also 20x32’ drive-through corn crib.
       Across the road is another complete farmstead, part of the property. The main home is an older colonial in good shape. At one end is a 28x28’ 2 car garage now used as a shop. It adjoins the main home (2598 ft2). First, you will enter an enclosed heated porch with a family room off this. This room has oak floors with some tasteful ceramic tile and also a sink. Then you enter the original part of the home which has a U-shaped open floor plan: kitchen / dining room with a step-down to the living room which features a painted paneled cathedral ceiling. Floors are either stained and finished plywood or painted plywood. A master bedroom with double doors is off this area. Upstairs are ~4 bedrooms. At the far end is a laundry /woodshed which measures an incredible 30x34’. It has its own attic. Adding it to the size of the main home would give us a 3600ft2 home.
       Just to the right of the main home is small building now used for storage, but was rented in the recent past as a one bath, one room home.
       Outbuildings include a 30x84’ three sided machinery shed and of course the dairy barn, a beautiful 66x66’ building with a bank entrance to a full loft. Underneath are 29 cow stalls, 8 calf stalls and 9 straight horse stalls. There is a leanto across one end. It has 2 silos - 12x50 and 14x50’.
Also in this location is the “Dowdy House” (30x28’, 1680ft2). It has polyurethaned plywood floors both up and down. Down features an open floor plan with kitchen, dining area and living room leading into the master bedroom. Upstairs is drywalled and ready to be divided into rooms any way you prefer

   Taxes are insanely low for such a large property, especially so considering all the like-new buildings here - $5427 (total). The owners drastically dropped the price to $650000, far less than their investment here 7 years ago. And they may be amenable to splitting the farm to make 2 farms of it.

Note: As this is Amish-owned, in respect to their religion, we do not show it on Sundays. Let me explain further about their homes as they do not permit indoor photography. I can send generic inside photos to help explain.
   Each has many similarities: open floor plans, pantries, separate and large washrooms, no modern kitchens and zero baths. No electric, no septic, and only cold water plumbing. Indoor paint is semi-gloss, for easier cleaning and is either off-white or light blue. Walls and ceilings are typically sheet rocked. Downstairs floors are either 2 1/4”oak or stained / polyurethaned Laun plywood. Upstairs, they are typically painted plywood. Windows are single-paned, large enough to make it bright inside. Quite often the trim around doors and windows is done later on, well after they have moved in. Ditto for baseboards - sometimes. Their homes are fully insulated and they like to use steel roofing because it sheds snow well and is extremely long-lasting, looking good forever. Basements are normally full, and dry, often walk-out if the topography will allow it. Foundations are cement block, with poured cement basement floors. Heat is by efficient wood cook stoves with a parlor wood stove added in the coldest weather. Doors are normally at the bottom of each stairs to keep heat where the family spends most of its time. They use the safe triple-walled stainless steel chimneys.
   As you might expect, their homes are famously well-built, spacious, and comfortable, with a traditional appearance and a good pattern for daily living. Don’t expect anything fancy; these are self-styled “plain people”, very friendly and refreshingly open to those they know, but otherwise somewhat private.

#1171 Western Montgomery County NEW FAR LOWER PRICE
- 150 tillable
- Creek flats
- Freestall dairy
- New Home
        Operating dairy with excellent land. There are 207 acres here with 150 tillable, including 40 of creek flats. All needed tiling was done years ago. Most of the rest could be pastured. There are 7465’ of road frontage and 3200’ on the Otsquago Creek. There is also 2 ponds which supply water (along with a 60’ deep dug well, ice-cold water). The ponds are full of fish (but not the well). The owner rents the farm next door which has equally good land, so he pastures some of his own crop land.
       You will find lots of buildings, many of them newer. Newest is the home, stick-built, 1300ft2, on a full dry basement. It has an open floor plan with kitchen/dining room/living room/laundry/office in one huge room. There is also 1.5 baths and 2 bedrooms. It is well-insulated and used little (propane) fuel. It and the milkhouse can be heated by an outdoor wood furnace as well.
       There are two mobile homes (14x60’ and 14x62’), older and rented out for additional income. They use the farm’s water but have their own septics and power. One has a new furnace.
       There is a newer 60 cow freestall (50x100’ - room for up to 50 more), a large feeding barn, a newer 36x130’ covered barnyard. Most of the young stock is in a newer 60x128’ pack barn that holds 75. There is also a 30x70’ solar barn for calves. Surplus youngstock can be housed in the old heifer barn (poor condition). Thue freestalls and the heifer facility feel manure into a cement 60z120’ holding tank for manure storage.
       Milking is done in a double 6 flat parlour, housed in the original dairy barn (which was once a 90 cow facility). The extra space there is used for a hospital area. It has overhead hay storage. And has 2 silos, both 24x60’ 0’. There is a 1500g bulk milk tank. There are 2 tunnel ventilation fans.
       There are a variety of smaller outbuildings: a roadside stand (permitted), a 2 car garage with a walk-in cooler (needs compressor), an old 25x50’ machinery barn; another is 30x93’. And there are 3 free-standing metal grain bins (2 at 7 tons and one at 1.5 tons).

This is a farm dressed in its work clothes. It works every day. Do not expect fancy landscaping and immaculate barns. It enjoys an AgriMark market. The base can be purchased additionally. The taxes are $10000 and the price has been dropped to $699,900. They’ve worked long and hard; let’s help these folks retire.

#1156 - Western Montgomery County - SOLD
- 170 acres in one field
- Excellent facilities for 85 cows
- Operating Dairy, available w/S & E
- 2 family home
- Dead-end road location
- $699000

       This is something that comes along only once every few years -   a really well put-together two family farm, with quality soil (and enough of it) with very good facilities for cattle, your young stock, your machinery - and the owner families. AND, this well- cared for farm is located on a paved, Town-maintained, dead end road. Try to find that elsewhere!
       This exceptionally nice operating dairy farm has a stable milk market located within the Amish community in the Fort Plain area. We are confidant a new owner can take over the market. The farm has 268 acres and includes two streams and two ponds. There are 175 tillable acres (essentially one huge field), 30 in pasture (can be cropped, no hedgerows), and 50 acres of woods with good timber + 13 acres of conservation land. Their silt loam soil has been well managed for years, with tiling, hedgerow removal, strip cropping, and crop rotation. This farm has won conservation awards for these efforts. The farm lanes have largely been graveled.
       Total dimensions on the barn are 40x190’; the original two story barn is 40x120’ with a drive-in to the loft. A one-story 35x70’ addition completes this barn for 80 tie stalls and two pens. Also, a 35x40’ addition for young stock Is attached to the one-story section. Barn equipment features a 2" pipeline and units, 1000 gallon tank with precooler, cow mats, tunnel ventilation, a huge 30x40’ covered barn cleaner room, tunnel ventilation, and a shop area. A good spring provides water for the livestock. The hay loft is simply vast.
       Other buildings are 20x45’ and 30x60’ with doors and a 20x54’ hop house used for storage. Two concrete stave silos are 14x60’ and 20x70’ and two concrete bunks (40x130’ and 30x130’) provide ample feed storage.
       The two-family Colonial farmhouse provides 3600 sq. ft. of living space with 7 bedrooms, 2 kitchens, 3 full baths, for a total of 15 rooms. A metal roof, vinyl siding, hardwood floors, a sitting porch with a swing, good drilled well and two forced air furnaces make this an attractive and comfortable home.

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    As an interesting sidebar, there is a historic Indian site located in the woods. It was occupied in 1491!
       Asking $699,000, well below a recent appraisal. Their Holstein cattle and all the feed and machinery are available at a price to be determined between you and the sellers. On DHIA, the cattle have a 24000 rolling herd average. 70 acres are in corn this season.
       For the salesman most familiar with this fine property, contact Larry Casler at 315-823-2970.

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