[AT] Dealing with landlords when needing rented land

[joehardy at epix.net]

 Cecil, Yes, similar examples in NE PA. Seems newbees lack common  sense and not caring for their neighbors. What really gets my dander  up when traveling into New Jersey and seeing all that wonderful ag farm land being developed into housing and warehouses. Now we have to depend on wheat shipments from India. Now India is stopping exports because they have a serious  drought issues. What is wrong with this picture? I'm beginning to be fearful as to what my grandchildren ill be facing in their future.. . I'm now 81 and just wondering what our country will be like after i'm gone. End of my rant!  Joe Hardisky Ryman Farm Dallas, PA  
    On Saturday, May 14, 2022, 02:55:35 PM EDT, Cecil Bearden <crbearden at copper.net> wrote:  
 
 This just a rant, but I gotta spill it..
> I just found my landlords daughter mowing the best area on the lease I 
> have so she can run her horses on it.  This 6 acre spot last year 
> produced 60 bales.   I had fertilized it heavily for the last 3 
> years.  It is on the 110 acres I have leased under written contract 
> which specifies that any changes have to be made in writing 30 days in 
> advance.  I am supposed to roll over because she is losing her place 
> for her horses after she moved here from texas.   She thinks she is 
> going to make enough giving riding lessons to pay for the upkeep of 
> these 3 horses.   I have to lease hay ground to have enough hay for my 
> cattle.  Due to the drought here, I have sold a bunch and need to sell 
> 1/2 of what is left. Now, I lose another 5 acres or more, fencing has 
> not been put up yet.  For some worthless horses.  The loss of the area 
> is going to cost the equivalent of 30 bales of hay.  Last year hay was 
> $50/bale.  It will probably be $75 this year.

I have another 30 acres rented that adjoins my farm to the south.   The 
landowner decided to dump 2 truckloads of dirt on one of the better 
producing areas so his kids could have something to shoot 22 rifles 
into.   Not concerned that my cattle were only 300 ft from the fence 
line in the line of fire.  I don't think they ever used the pile, but it 
became a source of weeds for 300 ft north of that pile.

I lost a 160 acre field 3 years ago when a big farmer decided he wanted 
it and accused me of not taking care of the place.   It turned out that 
the heir I was dealing with was accepting payment and not sharing with 
the other heirs.   I lost the field and picked up the one that was being 
mowed today.   The loss of the 160 was the very reason I wanted a 
written contract on any future rentals.  Now I was informed that since 
this 110 acres is owned by 2 brothers they are surveying it next week to 
split it up between their heirs.  Land here is going for over $5000/acre 
in large parcels.  The heirs won't be able to list it for sale fast enough.

Unless I move 70 miles to the south on the farm that has been rented out 
for over 20 years, my farming and cattle raising days are over.    By 
the time I could get things sold to move  this boom will be gone....

We have so many people moving in here from the crazy states I don't even 
recognize my state any more....

Cecil in OK

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