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deep SW On. | last I heard it was 17k acres and investor had bought it for his son and son was bored with farming......that was about 20 yrs. ago,wondered if itwas sold,broken up or what and while on rumors nobody is saying anything about ILLF anymore so that has to be a good thing |
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Revere Missouri very northeast corner. | http://illff.com/ They must have quit feeding the workers , the lunch menu is gone and the last one is from 2009. I see a strike brewing. LOL |
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| If you are talking about the Norris Farm on the Ill River, the Core of Engeneers cut the river dike to reflood the lower ground to restore what used to be Tompson Lake. I do not know about the higher ground. |
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Macoupin County IL | The Norris farm is now a state park
redoak email me about your other question |
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West central IL | What a waist of gov money that is too! |
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Farmington IL | It had a couple owners in the time frame you are talking. What I would call the "main farm" which was a few thousand acres of river bottom along the state highway near Havana is now owned by Nature Conservancy which is NOT the goverment. There are SOME acres adjoining it that are owned by US Fish and Wildlife. Hasnt been farmed in a few years now. The buildings are pretty well gone and most of that bottom farm is under water. I have been told by very serious bass fisherman you could actually get bored fishing there becuase you caught a fish every cast.
http://www.nature.org/ourinitiatives/regions/northamerica/unitedsta...
This link will take you to the Nature Conservancys page on what was the Norris Farm, they call it Emiquion.
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deep SW On. | -what about the beef feedlot?? |
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Farmington IL | Buildings, concrete, feed mill, all gone. I went to the sale when they closed out the farm operation and I nosed around the cattle facilities. What a disaster. They were totally destroyed by use and abuse. Was sad to see. That place sure was something back in the day. |
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NEMO | When I was going to Spoon River College, a couple of the guys worked for them after school, on weekends and for their OJT. It was quite an operation at that time. Can't remember what the acreage was at that time, but one of my college buddies that worked there said that all fields were numbered or named and each employee got a map of the farm so that when they were instructed to go to a particular field they had a map to get there. |
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Central Illinois | Maurice Wilder bought the farm in late nineties from (?) Gillette, who had bought the farm from the Italians. Anyway, Jerry Moss was the last manager for Gillette and did a great job there. Wilder turned the farm from a show place to a sh#$ hole, and finally sold the farm off in several parcels. The Nature Conservancy bought the main farm (5500+_ acres) and several hundred acres on the west side if the highway, while Fish and Wildlife bought most of the west side side. The Conservancy rented out most of the farmland for four or five years while tearing down buildings, houses and the feedlot. Everything from the headquarters is now gone, replaced by a parking lot, ramp and dock. CIPS (now Amerin) weighted down the natural gas pipeline with straps and concrete every few hundred feet to keep it from floating up as the water overtook it. We custom harvested 1,500 acres of wheat off of it the next to last year it was farmed. What a pleasure. I would never have thought the water would overtake it, but as wet as the last two years have been, it happened When we hit normal or dry weather, it will be interesting to see what happens. Have a bunch of pictures of our and neighbors combines and crew harvesting the wheat.
Someone brought an old timer on to the farm when we cut the wheat. He told of growing up on the farm before it was leveed, when there twenty some houses in the bottoms. He told of Thompson and Flag(?) Lakes going dry most summers, and how they would go in and plow them up and try to get a short season crop off. He (and us) shook our heads at what was happening to that once great showplace. |
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Central Illinois | and it has information on how to set and run every piece of equipment, from tillage tools to planters (each type) to sprayers and fertilizers. Chemical labels are included, along with all kinds of general farm policies. Quite the interesting manual for its day.
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NEMO | Yeah, I forgot that all that was in there too. I never got to see one of them, but it sounded pretty impressive. We used to run down to Havanna for parts once in a while and remember driving by. It was a pretty impressive place. |
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North Central IA | What is the deal on ILLF farms? |
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Martinsville and/or Newberry Indiana | huh Wilder turning a profitable farm into a big pool of water...sounds familiar he did the same thing to the goosepond in Linton IN |
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NE SD | Ole Maurice is good at runnin things down, at his buffalo ranch in Corson Co. the sheriff has taken over care of them. I didn't know much about him, relatives out there and local news, but if he's the guy on EWG site he's tryin to be a BTO, seems to find a way to bailout when the ships sinkin, wonder what he'll do with the buffalo. I see a new nature preserve coming to SD |
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Peoria,IL. |
We went to the sale also. Was that close to 20 years ago? |
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Kingdom of Callaway - Fulton, Mo 65251 | I had never heard of this - here is a link to a couple of interesting articles about it:
https://www.rangemagazine.com/features/fall-07/fa07-bottoms.pdf
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Whatever happened too Norris Farm
