fabsroman
Ultimate Member
It has been rough watching all those houses go up. I couldn't see another house from anywhere on the property until I was 12. If I won the lottery, I'd end up broke from buying houses and converting the land back to farming.
As of last Nov, they had not gotten approval. Pretty happy about that. My family has just under 100 acres in preservation in Lisbon. When my grandparents pass, one part of the family would have pushed very hard to pull it out and sell it for as much as possible. Zero interest in farming or even being part of the family.
That is pretty much how it goes. Usually, the landowner dies and the kids sell the place because they would rather have the money than the headache of owning a farm. Pleasantly surprised that did not happen back in 2005 when the owner of the farm I hunt on in Howard County passed on. Now, the previous year, the lady that owns the farm in Washington County that I hunt on passed away, and her son has been trying to sell it ever since. Wish I had the money to buy it, but he is asking a pretty penny for it.
Yeah, it hasn't been easy for me either to watch the homes go up around the farm I hunt. We get visits from DNR every once in a while because those homes call it in. More so when they first went up. Now, I think they realize that no matter how many times they send DNR out, we are legal and going to keep coming back. Only way they can get us to stop coming back is by making it illegal to discharge a firearm on that farm for the purpose of hunting. Granted, in 2008 an ordinance was passed to prevent the discharge of a firearm anywhere in Howard County for target practice, other than at a licensed range. So, that has pretty much stopped.
If you win the lottery, you would be better served just buying additional farm land. Waste of money to buy perfectly good homes and plow them down, because before you know it, your farmland will be surrounded by homes once again. It would have to be one heck of a lottery for you to keep up the process.