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TABLE OF CONTENTS:
1. Free Lunch is Served; Power Included With Land
2. Danger: Dogs, Dumps, Dynamite
3. Counties: Gila County is Monstrously Pretty
4. Site News: Tell Us About It
5. Storms Brewing Over Transmission Lines
6. Land-Use: Fish - Aquaculture
7. You're in the Dirtiest Database
8. Commodities Prices Bounce Around
9. Recent Properties
It's true. Free or reduced power is often available on rural properties. A number of properties are listed with existing natural gas wells or potential natural gas, thermal or solar power, or even wind and water power features. For example, some properties in the Ohio River watershed - and its tributaries - feature gas that is already powering farms, or could. All of this can bring down the cost of operations considerably. Out west the story is the same, and sometimes includes thermal, wind or water power, depending upon size and location of the property.
How do you find these gems? Click on "Search Properties" from the homepage toolbar - those are the links arrayed horizontally, at the top of the homepage, just below the logo. In the "Keyword(s)" field you can type 'free' and 'fuel' or 'geo-thermal,' as well as 'gas.' Try other fuel-related terms, too. And, don't forget to browse our "alternative energy" land-use category.
Examples of properties include: a 26-acre Ohio retreat with free gas on an adjacent property (rights go with the well battery, which sits on the seller's property) and a solar-powered equestrian New Hampshire property, which has full net-metering and back-up propane for particularly gray winter week. A potential wind-farm in Texas with nearby transmission lines is another one worth examining.
We get a lot of calls from folks selling property who wonder if common sense flies out the window when buyers start visiting property, especially rural tracts. We address this in an article on the homepage about "visiting property properly." Especially with property in the country, prospects often assume they can go poking around a property without supervision. Nothing could be farther from the truth. Buyers need to confirm date, time and number in the visiting party, along with leaving kids and dogs behind - if at all possible. And, that's just the beginning. Read our accompanying article - which will go up shortly, if it's not already up - to learn more.
Experts agree that, while the legendary Arizona lizard with the same name as this county is venomous, it's far too slow to catch and bite any humans wishing to relocate to its namesake shire. And mostly the Gila Monster spends the hottest months in AZ underground, while Gila County humans - enjoying temperatures that are often 20 degrees cooler than Phoenix - frolic above ground, even in the hot Arizona summer, when the 4000-7000 feet county elevations protect residents from the worst of the Sonoran Desert heat.
The flip side is that Gila residents see snow during the winter months. That provides the romantic western backdrops that local author Zane Grey used in so many of his stories, which he set in the years of settlement latter half of the nineteenth century, as conflict between white settlers and native Americans escalated. Grey's cabin was near the county's largest town, Payson, and the area is sometimes called "Zane Grey Country." Although it's no longer there, plenty of history marks the area. A network of trails is growing in and around Payson, too.
Globe is the county seat, and much of the county is either owned, managed or run by the federal government as part of national forests, or it's part of two large Native American reservations. This mountainous county supports a number of hamlets that retirees have found appealing, including the lyrical-sounding Strawberry. Because of the paucity of private land available, Gila-bound buyers are advised to find a reputable agent or broker.
We want your experience on the site to be top-notch. So, if you come across something odd or troubling, we have a new way for you to tell us about it: on every listing you will now see a "Report a Concern," link. You can find this hyper-link at the top of every listing page, just above the red-colored listing headline and just below the "Save This Listing" button. We've gotten many requests for this, and now it's here!
It can be used for just about anything, from a concern that one of your pictures is not displaying properly, to worries about an email you've received, to a question about another ad on the site, or perhaps an error, such as a bad link or a funky set of characters. We want to hear about it! Don't forget, if there's another feature you'd like to see - let us know.
What happens when a restaurant gets popular? Lines. What happens when wind energy gets popular? Not enough lines.
A tremendous amount of energy, pardon the double-entendre, is going in to making wind viable, especially in the West. New West and The Oregonian report that demand and supply may be out of balance, because of a lack of transmission lines, with only a small portion of the grid offered by Oregon's largest power agency available to all the wind-produced energy coming on line. In other words, there aren't enough transmission lines at the Bonneville Power Administration to take advantage of the wind-energy expected to be produced in the next few years. So, either more transmission capacity will be built - and lines put through - or a lot of folks are going to have big huge wind turbines sitting motionless on their land in the Columbia River Gorge, and elsewhere. Meanwhile, Texas is going whole hog for wind....
And, Southern California is facing up to a basic problem: how to get solar and wind-generated power from the big open spaces of the deserts east of Los Angeles, back into the city. L.A.'s power administration began placing markers on and near private property a few years ago to note the path of the lines, called " green path," which also made its way through wildlife refuges and other protected areas. Didn't consult land-owners. Fast-forward a few years, and public outrage over private property takings for transmission lines has L.A. re-thinking the path of "green path." Word of advice: keep up with local power agency plans for new lines...
Like golfers, fisherfolk can be obsessive. The best way to guarantee access to a fully-stocked fishing lake is to own one. But, of course, there are other means to this end. One could simply farm fish or create a hatchery, buy frontage on a fly-fishing stream or river or stock a nearby pond or lake. Another option is perusing our "Fish - Aquaculture" group. This is a smaller category than our "Waterfront" group - which usually attracts the weekend fisherfolk - but it's a wide-ranging category for its size.
Whether it's fly-fishing, fish-farms or even oceanfront - there's fishing territory available on LandAndFarm.com. Some listings deserve mention in this regard: a full-featured multi-person fly-fishing lodge in WV, a streamfront home in buzzing central OR, an NS salmon-fishing lot and a lake camp in KY. If you're starting to plan fall fishing-trips, now is the time to look at these and other fish properties.
Your property is likely in the dirtiest database in the world. No, we're not talking about Internet smut. It's a new United Nations-sponsored soils DB that maps out which soils are the most productive, which are not and which have the most potential to trap carbon dioxide, which is thought to be among the contributors to global-warming. Soil information has often been the one missing information layer, the absence of which has added to the uncertainties of predicting the potential for and constraints to food and fiber production as well as the capacity of soils to hold carbon and to act as a sink," the U.N.'s Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO) said.
Derived from the soil database, FAO has also produced a global Carbon Gap Map that allows for the identification of areas where soil carbon storage is greatest and the physical potential for billions of tons of additional carbon to be sequestrated in degraded soils. Until now, most efforts to use agriculture to manage greenhouse gases have involved above-ground sequestration, primarily through planting trees, since the amount of carbon that can be sequestered in this way is substantial. However, there is also growing interest in finding ways to increase carbon sequestration in soils. The DB is a start, officials say.
If you're thinking of planting corn and wheat for the first time to take advantage of higher commodity prices worldwide, consult the experts before doing so - many are calling a top to those prices, while others are pretty sure the markets will be volatile for several years out. The International Herald Tribune reports that some prices are already falling after corn topped out following recent Midwest flooding.
"Commodities in general have cooled a bit, " said Darin Newsom, analyst with DTN in Omaha, the IHT reported. "We had such an enormous run, and big rallies lead to corrections. The great question is whether it's long term or short term."
He noted that the seemingly relentless drive in commodities was built largely on robust demand for raw materials, especially in fast-growing economies abroad. The low dollar fed demand, too. But with energy costs rising and oaring costs for other commodities, demand is dropping, the IHT said.
The once hot grains market, which shot to record-highs in June after floods hit the Midwest and wiped out corn and soybean crops, has deflated somewhat. Corn prices shot up to $8, forcing the temporary closure of several ethanol plants. Livestock owners also suffered, as the rocketing cost of corn-based animal feed made raising hogs and other animals unprofitable. "A lot of livestock owners went out of business...," a Northstar Commodity analyst was quoted as saying.
A sun-soaked late summer has dried things out, and hopes are for a moderately good harvest, dropping prices back. VeraSun's South Dakota ethanol plant will likely start-up again, the company says.
| |  | Waterfront Canada: Do Drop Inn by LandAndFarm.com Staff
The bracing breezes of the Northumberland Strait bring salt air and serenity to the New Brunswick inn a couple have called home for 17 years. Here, in one of Canada's traditionally French-speaking provinces, the husband has manned the inn while the wife has worked magic at the award-winning restaurant within.
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Sample of Recent Properties
Lake Ontario Access From Bay (waterfront)
Fair Haven, New York
Ford''s Colony Lot (residential land) 1 acres.
Williamsburg, Virginia
Real Estate Auction Newburg W (residential land) 240 acres.
Newburg, West Virginia
Finger Lakes Log Home /Hunters Paradise (recreational property) 40 acres.
Cayuta, New York
Great Hunting Priced To Sell (hunting property) 83 acres.
Perry, Illinois
Excellent Hunting Prime Area (hunting property) 80 acres.
Barry, Illinois
640 Acs/ 7 Tracts Divided /Condo (residential land) 640 acres.
Marion, Dillon, Rowland, Myrtle Beach, South Carolina
Small Farm Huge Potential (hunting property) 40 acres.
Pleasant Hill, Illinois
Receational Estate (recreational property) 110 acres.
Liberty, Tennessee
Fayetteville Farm (hunting property) 181 acres.
Fayetteville, Tennessee
Fabulous 1.3 Ac (horse farm) 1 acres.
Virginia
Come Home To Tennssee (forest - natural) 2 acres.
Harrimen, Tennessee
Tallapoosa River 67 Acre (recreational property) 67 acres.
Frog Eye, Alabama
10.7 Ac On Gorgeous Lot (horse farm) 11 acres.
Catharpin, Virginia
Bring Your Business Here (commercial land) 7 acres.
PHOENIX, New York
188 Acre Middle Tennessee Farm (livestock operation) 188 acres.
Wartrace, Tennessee
170 Acre Farm On Duck River (livestock operation) 170 acres.
Wartrace, Tennessee
9 Equestrian Lots Available (commercial land) 10 acres.
Virginia
Great Investment Opportunity (commercial land) 1 acre.
FULTON, New York
Beautiful 64.96 Acre Farm (undeveloped land) 65 acres.
Franklin, Tennessee
Fabulous 10 Ac Lot (horse farm) 10 acres.
Virginia
Gorgeous 10 Ac Lot (commercial land) 10 acres.
Nokesville, Virginia
Drastic Price Reduction (undeveloped land) 130 acres.
Doerun, Georgia
Smith Lake Alabama- White Oak Landing (waterfront) 2 acres.
Arley, Alabama
Hunting And Recreational Land (hunting property) 196 acres.
Kentucky
Farm With Views Seclusion (ranch) 25 acres.
Solo, Missouri
122 Acres Of Woodland (undeveloped land) 122 acres.
Walton, West Virginia
Paulownia Plantation (pasture) 50 acres.
Smithville, Georgia
Pike County Paradise (hunting property) 206 acres.
Rockport, Illinois
Gravel Pit (commercial land) 44 acres.
Dalton, New Hampshire
Whitetail Hunters Dream (hunting property) 298 acres.
Milton, Illinois
Great Whitetail Farm (hunting property) 338 acres.
Pleasant Hill, Illinois
Update Home In Rockvale (residential land) 2 acres.
Rockvale, Tennessee
60 Acre Farm With Free Gas (residential land) 60 acres.
Looneyville, West Virginia
Drastic Price Reduction (undeveloped land) 100 acres.
Albany, Georgia
Roane Co. 102.93 Acres (hunting property) 103 acres.
Amma, West Virginia
Superb Hunting And Farming (hunting property) 82 acres.
Pittsfield, IL, Illinois
Great Hunting With Income (hunting property) 120 acres.
Pleasant Hill, Illinois
5 Acres With Brick Home (residential land) 5 acres.
Attica, Kansas
Pikeville Tn. Acreage (residential land) 6 acres.
Pikeville, Tennessee
Awesome Hunting Great Income (hunting property) 192 acres.
Pittsfield, Illinois
50 Acres Totally Secluded Cabin Home (residential land) 50 acres.
Letart, West Virginia
Bear Fork Bluegrass Club (commercial land) 2 acres.
Stumptown, West Virginia
Unbelievable Lodge & Acreage (recreational property) 40 acres.
Jacksonville, Illinois
40 Acres 30 Wooded 10 Clear (forest - natural) 40 acres.
Missouri
110 Acres Sarasota Area (residential land) 110 acres.
myakka, Florida
Hunting Property Southern Ks (hunting property) 760 acres.
Anthony, Kansas
Good-Bye World (recreational property) 43 acres.
Ligonier, Indiana
Sought After Cherry Creek Area (undeveloped land) 49 acres.
Sparta, Tennessee
Idyllic Country Retreat (residential land) 2 acres.
Burlington Flats, NY, New York
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