doublejj's next big adventure....Lone Oak Farms 2016

Kasuti

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Out where I l
My county if mostly agriculture and timber land. The Chamber of Commerce types are always trying to get industry and tourists in. We have a new business just down the road that takes tubers up the river and lets them float down. It's mostly drunk college kids from FSU. We have a little river land, and are always having to pick up their trash.

Although some of those drunk college kids do make good scenery.
Out Where I live its mostly timber land and swamps so I don't have to worry about too many new York retirees moving here
 

Kasuti

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Our blue fin fishing is good but all so dependent on cooler water temps. We have big bluefin like you guys but we have Deepwater where as you guys hook them in a couple hundred feet of water and chase them down. The rods out here just get emptied.
I want to get a boat and commercial fish your tuna .
Fishing and shrimping are hard work, but a good fisherman or captain can make a good living on the water.
 

Larry {the} Gardener

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Out where I l
Out Where I live its mostly timber land and swamps so I don't have to worry about too many new York retirees moving here
Our sandhills are filling up with transplanted Yankees. Land that even is marginal for growing sand pines. There is a lot of them brings kids into the school system, but own so little land they pay no taxes. We have a saying about folks like that. "He came down here with a white shirt and a 20 dollar bill and has never changed either of them."
 

Kasuti

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Our sandhills are filling up with transplanted Yankees. Land that even is marginal for growing sand pines. There is a lot of them brings kids into the school system, but own so little land they pay no taxes. We have a saying about folks like that. "He came down here with a white shirt and a 20 dollar bill and has never changed either of them."
Thankfully all the retired Yankees stay within five miles of the ocean here.
 

Larry {the} Gardener

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How many acres do you farm?
My sister and I split a little over 200 acres when my Dad died. Some of it joint ownership between me and her. These days I farm pine trees mainly. We ran cows and hogs most of my life, growing corn and hay for them, but that is a hard way to go broke. I also truck farmed for years, and was so tired of it, I only got back into gardening the last three or four years. Now I get mad when people try to pay me for veggies.
 

Kasuti

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My sister and I split a little over 200 acres when my Dad died. Some of it joint ownership between me and her. These days I farm pine trees mainly. We ran cows and hogs most of my life, growing corn and hay for them, but that is a hard way to go broke. I also truck farmed for years, and was so tired of it, I only got back into gardening the last three or four years. Now I get mad when people try to pay me for veggies.
Farming can be good to you one year and the next year you might get lucky enough to break even. It's up to mother nature.
 

Larry {the} Gardener

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Farming can be good to you one year and the next year you might get lucky enough to break even. It's up to mother nature.
We never did the credit farming like many of our peanut, cotton and soy bean producing neighbors do. So a bad year never broke us, but a good year never meant a move to Easy Street either.
 
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