20 miles west of Indianapolis Indiana | BachRstFrms - 1/22/2026 07:48
Basically you want a buffer strip program that is year to year not 10 year. idk what the fee/fine to terminate 10year contract early is but if its not productive wouldnt the buffer strip be beneficial anyway? If i had the time and resources (work full time off the farm) there wouldnt be a hedge or old fence row on any ground i farmed if the LL allowed it.
This is 350ish of what I farm. I could see a lot of that benefiting me if we could do something like that buffer deal on say 15-30’. Right now those bushels are coming to a $4.25 market and maybe costing $5.25 to produce? Idk I haven’t done any math but guessing. Those bushels would be needed by the market when we have a drought or demand increases or something. (Not I realize a 2012-like drought happens and it’s a year later before we can add the production.
Majority of the treelines we have are where the landlord doesn’t want us to cut back any further or it’s a woods and where do you stop them? We do not own an excavator either. So it’s a long process to push a woods back to the point it doesn’t affect yield, and usually we are close enough to a drop off or ditch we need the trees for erosion.
You could basically bid your acres by county. I think that’s how they did set aside or PIK? (I was born in 84 so idk)
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