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New Mexico | rent it out for grazing.
Matter of FACT: On your grazing lease, LIMIT the nuber of animals grazed to slightly below the estimated animal carrying capacity of the pastures.
Reason I say slightly below on cattle numbers, is that cattle in general weigh More than they used to.
Especially stock cows.
Most rough estimates ( including fsa technical estimates ) on land carrying capacity assumes 1,050 to 1,150 lb cows.
Most cows in the Midwest weigh 1,350 to 1,550.
Another reason for being conservative...is there might be more money made on your place on the hunting lease than the grazing lease.
Soo it makes sense to actually favor feed for game production vs cattle.
Hunting lease on your place should be in the $50 per acre per year range and might be more towards $100 per acre per year too.
( just depends on place location, your hunting market and your marketing skills....give a long term exclusive to the right co...and you could be looking at $150 per acre per year....just for the hunting there ).
The TREND for grazing in many areas of the usa now, is that the landowner PAYS grazers to bring cattle, sheep goats etc..
Most ranches sold in Texas the past decade are hunter owned.
Most those grazing leases are either free for the livestock, or livestock operator pays the taxes to graze.
That keeps the ranch in an agri tax status, thus alot lower tax base for the landowner.
Since the CORRECT grazing actually improves the land, raises natural feed tonnage production etc., that makes for more, bigger, better game.
Edited by Markwright 3/7/2011 16:56
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Renting out pature land - best opportunity
