Broad Fields, Views

This 89.5 acres is mostly open and mostly planted in soybeans and rye. Big broad nearly level fields combined with high lime soils make it an impressive piece of land when you see it. The east end has thin soils as evidenced by bedrock exposed by some sort of minor quarrying and is not considered tillable. This area is brushy or lightly wooded. Elsewhere there are only woods where the terrain briefly gets steep - most trees there are Sugar Maples. There are a few acres that are tillable yet are not used by the tenant - my estimate is that someone could crop up to 70-75 acres here.

You will find views extending 10-20 miles to the southern Adirondacks to the north and to the Otsego County hills to the south. This is one of the benefits of a higher elevation. There is very nearly 4000 of road frontage here on both Town and County roads. Despite a lack of heavy woods, I found lots of deer ...