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I imagine there's going to be noise and dust from time to time but how often? Was it a problem for you?
If that corner slot is divided into two pieces of real estate, does your neighbor play a bigger role in your life...or something?
What were your experiences living on a corner piece like that?
This'll be a huge jump for us, and I know I'll be the main one advocating for something outside the town, so want to thoroughly consider every angle! Thanks.
I would imagine these properties are the old farm houses that used to go with family farms that have now sold out to big ag. They have no use for the buildings so they sell off these corners. The type of noise and the type of dust, chemicals and smells you may have to contend with depends on the crops they're planting there.
You need details... It would help to know where and what kinds of crops they're planting and what kind of schedule that means for your area.
Could be hay, which they will mow probably 2-4 times a year, and spread some kind of liquid poop on in between each time to fertilize.
Could be corn which will have one harvest per year, with maybe some other kind of cover crop planted for winter.
Could be anything in between. Might have crop dusters spraying a few times a year in the area that are probably fun to watch if you're not worried about being downwind of what they're spraying. Ask some questions of the locals. If there's someone living on the other corner, get to know them, yes, they're probably someone you'll want to have an amicable relationship with.
Pivot irrigation. Bluntly, I would avoid such a property if possible. Large fields are commonly subject to crop dusting, usually in early morning hours when winds are minimal. There is simply no way to avoid the overspray of whatever chemical is being used. Most are relatively harmless, but relative is a squishy word.
No thanks! The pesticides, frequent use of machinery, and dust alone make such a piece unappealing. Then factor in the lack of visual privacy on such a parcel.
No way I would touch it for any purpose. You have no control over what over sprays may land on your homestead. I wouldn't want to eat from a garden that had any over spray on it from a commercial field or live with not being able to open windows because of those sprays and dust from the fields.
I wouldn't want to eat from a garden that had any over spray on it from a commercial field
Where do you get the food you do eat? Just curious.
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or live with not being able to open windows because of those sprays and dust from the fields.
OK I brought up spraying, and it's a real thing and an issue to investigate. But they're not out there spraying every day, or wildly spraying everything. It's occasional, not daily, and fairly targeted.
From a healthy living and clean air standpoint, I think I'd take the country with an open window looking out at a cultivated field over an open window in the city, with the exhaust of a million cars and industry wafting in. Every place has it's risks and nuisances, unless you have a LOT of acreage of your own around you. Close the windows on those days when they're spraying... And on the days when they spread the poop. The rest of the time, It's not bad living probably. It has it's charm. The noises are people performing a function, not just making noise. Farmers do live and work out there, and they do open their windows.
One thing I was surprised to learn when looking for places for a friend in Wisconsin.... There was all this ag land for miles and miles, and more places than I expected where zoning did not allow farm animals. Still surprised by that.
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Where do you get the food you do eat? Just curious.
Normally we grow most of what we eat. Last season it came early from farmers market where we sold also at. Now until we get the new property up and running we are dependent on local farmers markets staring in a month or so and Publix Super Market. By 2023 90% non meat items will be produced on site. Eggs and chicken will be home raised also. Possible one day even pork. 2 seniors don't eat enough beef to even consider it. We might can do some bartering though. We also are living close enough to the Gulf to make a weekend run and take up fishing once again... We don't bother with freshwater species of fish. We normally raise everything possible from asparagus to zucchini. We even have citrus trees waiting to plant along with several other fruit species. It will be our first time with figs. We are just now finishing up items we canned and froze in 2019.
For a few months, we lived across the road from a farm. It was noisy! They'd be out at dawn, sowing, weeding, harvesting, applying pesticides, whateverall they were doing with that big machinery. If you normally get up at daylight, the noise might not bother you so much.
Their irrigation went haywire one day, and made a huge pond in the road. Glad I wasn't affected by that.
Looks awful to me. Nope. I'd look elsewhere for land for all the reasons listed in here.
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We are just now finishing up items we canned and froze in 2019.
