12394  COMMERCIAL HORSE FARM WITH BEAUTIFUL ARENA:  Fantastic arena on this horse farm. Just 5 years old, the arena is like new in every way. It measures 72x198’ and has 19’ side walls, is well lit, with good footing and tapered lower walls so your horse cannot brush you off against the wall. A 2 story wing is 36x48’, is heated, and has its own bathroom and 5 12x12’ box stalls with rubber floors, a wash stall, tack area. Upstairs is a lookout onto the arena. This area is insulated and heated and could be finished off into living space, an office or game room. The home, built in the early 1800’s, was a parsonage in years gone by and is in nice condition. Downstairs is a double living room, formal dining room (with mock fireplace), country kitchen, den, sun porch, and a 2 car garage (new roof). All floors are hardwood. Upstairs are 2 very large bedrooms and a large hall. At one time in the past, each bedroom must have been divided into two smaller bedrooms. Heat is a new oil hot air furnace and also wood (see below).There is also a 2 story storage shed (20x25’). There are 11.6+ acres here, all flat open land, all with fine views, and is in an area with one beautiful operating farm right after another along the road. Taxes are absurdly low at $1200 (the arena is still exempt, but they get no Star as their daughter occupies the home - this is a Town known for low taxes) and the price $350000.

Also available is significantly more land, priced at $3500/acre, choose what you want, and useable for hay, pasture or trail riding. A second home, also in nice condition, and on a double lot, is available for an additional $100000. This is somewhat private and once was a schoolhouse, though you would never guess it today. It has a 2 car attached garage, a den, bathroom, kitchen, living room with a sun porch, one bedroom and a finished storage room downstairs. Upstairs is a large unfinished attic which could easily accommodate 3 bedrooms. It has a new roof, paved drive, and oil hot air heat. A large deck off the back connects to an above-ground swimming pool. It is nicely landscaped. The last thing that is available are 30 horses. They will be sold individually and priced attractively.

This farm is offered by a family who is retiring from the horse business due to ill health and the untimely death of a family member. They will continue their other farming ventures and are retaining some buildings and additional land to do this. If it were important enough to a buyer, they could sell their beautiful Federal brick home and the other barns and land (including a camp on a large lake) that they prefer to retain. Let me explain further: this is a family compound and is comprised of numerous tax parcels which adjoin. The buildings share a few services: an outside wood furnace heats the horse farm home, the horse barn and the owner’s home. A drilled well is on the property being sold, but also services other farm buildings. A spring on property being retained services, among other buildings, The horse farm home. We will need to do a bit of good will give and take so all parties are satisfied. Fortunately, the owners are great folks and are willing to listen to creative suggestions. The homes are fairly far apart so neither party will feel like anyone is close upon them and the land across the street is also owned by the main farm.

12382   HERKIMER COUNTY STOCKED AND EQUIPPED CATTLE AND CROP FARM: Step right in here and get down to business. This 159 acre farm comes fully stocked and equipped with 57 head of mostly Angus and Angus X beef cattle, a Belgian mare and her filly foal (maybe even the dogs) and a very extensive line of mostly newer equipment ready to go to work. There are 104 tillable acres here of mostly high lime Honeoye and Lima silt loam soils, 10 acres of woods and the remainder in well fenced pasture. There is also a year round stream and 3 ponds to water your stock. As an added bonus there is a lifetime rent free lease for the adjoining 450 acre farm owned by a downstate hunting club with another 145 tillable acres. That makes a total of 250 tillable acres available here. There is a natural gas lease and a meteorlogical tower lease that will go with the farm. The home is an 8 room 25 year old raised ranch in very nice condition. The main floor has an eat-in kitchen, living room, 2 bedrooms, office and bath and it sells completely applianced and furnished. The finished basement was once a separate apartment with an entry hall, kitchen/living room, bedroom and 3/4 bath. There is also a stand up attic, a garage below, a large rear deck overlooking the fields, aluminum siding, new thermopane windows, a new oil hot water furnace and another wood furnace, a 200 amp electric service, a never ending artesian well water supply, 750 gal fiberglass septic and generator hookup. There is a modular pad just below the house with it's own electric hookup and septic in place should you wish to make use of it. The 40'x 110' former dairy barn with full overhead hay storage has had the stalls removed to make it more suitable to run beef cattle but the Patz barn cleaner remains along with a 14'x40' concrete stave silo with an unloader. The barn is soon to have a complete rehab by the noted Woodford Brothers firm. There is a new 48'x80' enclosed steel pole machinery barn with a 25'x80' attached leanto and another 30'x40' steel pole stock barn with 2 box stalls. The very extensive line of mostly later model tillage, planting, harvesting (including 2 combines) and hauling equipment included is way too long to get into here but will be provided upon request. All tools and miscellaneous equipment needed around a farm (and he has just about everything) are also included along with all crops growing and in storage at the time of sale. Note: The owner is interested only in a package deal. Total taxes are $4647 with the star program and the package price is a firm $795,000. 

12376 NEW 276 COW FREESTALL FARM: This barn is 60x400' and has 276 freestalls with 192 locks. The barn was built in 2004. 138 cow mats. There is a 16x24 building with living space for hired help or use as an office building. Barn area has 1% slope in all directions. Well produces 100 gallons/minute. There are 165 acres with 45 tillable, 55 pasture and 65 woods. 150 acres is available to rent for tillage. There are crop growers in the area that sell hay and corn. The ranch home was also new in 2004 and has 3 bedrooms, 2 full baths and a beautiful kitchen. There is also a 24x48 mobile home with 3 bedrooms that has been used only 4 years. This is a good opportunity for a dairyman to set up a modern free stall operation just the way they want it. The farm is in a nice area with good schools. Asking $785,000

12309 LARGE FARM OFFERED IN MANY WAYS : In total, there are 624 acres, of which 450 are tillable. More can be easily and cheaply rented if you wish. This is well-improved land; lots of tiling and hedgerow removal has been done. There are numerous very large fields here and the low elevation gives it a greater growing season than many of its neighbors. You will find some extraordinary views here as well, along with many streams and ponds.  New $9000 water system was designed with a 300 cow freestall in mind. The barn is a tie stall barn, however, and has 160 stalls. There are many improvements to it: tunnel ventilation, automatic take-offs, variable speed vacuum pump, 300g bulk tank, concrete barnyard with auto feeding from 2 concrete silos, roller mill, Patz-guard mangers, Patz & Cornell cleaners.... There are 3 Harvestores (2 @20x60, Large farm is offered numerous ways. In total, there are 624 acres, of which 450 are tillable. More can be easily and cheaply rented if you wish. This is well-improved land, lots of tiling and hedgerow removal has been done. There are numerous very large fields here and the low elevation gives it a greater growing season than many of its neighbors. You will find some extraordinary views here as well, along with many streams and ponds.  new $9000 water system was designed with a 300 cow freestall in mind. The barn is a tie stall barn, however, and has 160 stalls. There are many improvements to it: tunnel ventilation, automatic take-offs, variable speed vacuum pump, 300g bulk tank, concrete barnyard with auto feeding from 2 concrete silos, roller mill, Patz-guard mangers, Patz & Cornell cleaners.... There are 3 Harvestores (2 @20x60 + 20x40) and a grain drying and storage system for 6-700 tons (the drier holds 200 tons). The barn measures 36x150 (2 story) and 36x300 (single story).  Inside the barn is room for 50 young stock in 18 pens and 30 ties. Older heifers are kept in a freestall with another silo, another trailer, and another 40x80' machine shed, which are located separately. There are (2) 40x80' machinery sheds, a workshop/storage area, a trailer for help, and a 3 year old home. The home has 3 bedrooms, 2 baths, gas hot water heat, a full basement, kitchen/dining room and living room. It is 26x40'. Two additional homes are deeded separately and can be made available ($55000 & $80,000 - both have been remodeled). There are 120 Holstein milk cows (partly registered), 34 heifers due in January, 15 due in April +M 30 yearlings, 60 calves, 15 steers & 3 bulls. There is a very extensive line of machinery: 2006 4wd JD 6625 Tractor w/cab, 1994 JS201 discs, 1999 NY 1475 Hydroswing haybine, 2 1990 NH 258 rakes, 1999 NH 570 baler/kicker, 2000 NH 644 round baler, 2000 bale wrapper, 1987 bush Hog, 2 hay elevators, 2000 80' 8” grain elevator, 1998 IH 900 chopper w/2 heads, 1984 IH blower, 6 1986 Dion SU wagons, 6 1987 kicker wagons, 3 1984 Kilbros grain wagons (one is set up for fertilizer), 1995 6 ton stainless steel fertilizer/lime spreader, 1998 Brock gas dryer and 7150bu. bin, 1999 24990bu. storage bin, (2) 1994 roller mills, 2004 IH manure spreader, (3) 1991 Patz silo unloaders, (3) 1996 Harvestore silo unloaders, 2 feed carts, farm trailer, 1969 IH 560 diesel tractor, 1973 and 1969 Chevy vans, 1989 IH diesel truck, 1985 GMC diesel truck, 1984 4wd White 175 tractor, 1 1982 & 2 1984 IH 966 tractors, 1990 & 1999 IH 1066 tractors, 2000 4wd JD 7800 tractor, Farmall M tractor, 1999 CIH skid steer (diesel), 1983 JD 6620 combine w/grain head, 1994 JD 7720 diesel combine, 1994 Perfecto Land Conditioner, 1984 IH 18' discs, 1980 Lowry land roller, IH 20 hole grain drill, stone picker, 1997 IH 6 bottom plows, 1999 JD chisel plows, 1985 Century sprayer, 100 amp generator, + a small tool inventory worth $20000. If you buy it stocked and equipped, they will throw in all hay stored (10000 bales when I wrote this) and all haylage at no extra cost. $2.5M. The bare farm is $1,290,000, the cattle are $353700, and the machinery is priced at $454000. Taxes are $13000.

If you wish to buy with less land, here is a breakdown, based upon the various tax parcels which comprised the farm:

123 acres with home farm - $495000. Has nearly all the buildings, 6500' of frontage, 55 tillable plus lots of fenced pasture.

7.9 acres, former railroad bed (would make an excellent trail). Too narrow for building.  A stream crosses it - $15800

31.7 acres with 15 tillable, 925' of frontage on Rte 5 and it has a deep gravel bed, partly developed. A stream crosses it - $63400

47.2 acres with 44 tillable and 1000' of frontage, and has fine views overlooking the valley. This is high quality land, with much tiling done as well as hedge-row removal - - $94400

66 acres with 50 tillable, the remainder wooded, and 1230' of frontage. You will gasp at the views here. This is high quality land, with much tiling done as well as hedge-row removal - $180000.

95.3 acres with 61 tillable, and a 40x80' freestall for heifers plus a large silo, an occupied trailer and a 40x80' machinery barn. There are some small streams and a large pasture area, interspersed with woods. $190600

106.4 acres with 82 tillable and 3600' of frontage. The tillable land figure is partly inflated because a power line crosses the land and the land underneath it is used by the owner as if it were his.  The remainder of the land is pasture which surrounds a stream. This is high quality land, with much tiling done as well as hedge-row removal  $212800

144 acres, with 107 tillable and 4600' of frontage. It is in 2 parts, quite close, connected by a right of way. 2 streams traverse it. This is high quality land, with much tiling done as well as hedge-row removal. $288400

12321 OPERATING MONTGOMERY COUNTY DAIRY : Continue to milk or use for great country living. This is located west of Albany in the Canajoharie School District and has nearly 239 acres, 200 of which are tillable. 25 more are wooded and the remainder is pastured. Normally 40 acres are in corn and the rest in hay and although they have not applied for organic certification, the hay land should qualify. This is an unusually pretty farm and has large and good buildings. The 1800 sqft. farm home, about 140 years old, is in very good condition and has wall to wall carpeting, paneling walls, vinyl siding, a large modern country kitchen, dining room, office and living room downstairs. Above are 4 bedrooms. There is one bath, downstairs, but room for another upstairs. It is heated by a gravity hot air wood furnace and has a 50 g/minute drilled well. East Creek passes through the pasture areas and there is a small shallow pond. The dairy barn is 40x140 and has 69 stanchions, 1/5 pipeline, 500 & 300g bulk tanks, mow conveyor system, and 2 silos with Patz unloaders (20x60 and 14x30). There is also a very large heifer barn with 30 ties- both these barns are serviced by Patz barn cleaners. You will also find a new 50x94 hay barn and 50x100' machinery shed plus a 2 car garage. Taxes are only $3200 and the price is $519000. For $725000 you can get it with 65 Holstein milkers, 28 heifers, 7 tractors (2 Leylands , Same 4WD, Case 730, DB1200, MF35, Neufield - all in good repair) and a long full line of machinery and tools.

SOLD

12338 OTSEGO COUNTY DAIRY: 127 acres in the rolling hills just outside of Morris and buy a short drive from Oneonta. Land has been surveyed and fenced for rotational grazing. There are 80 tillable acres, 12 woods and the balance pasture. Two story recently renovated home is fully insulated and easy to heat. It has new wiring, siding and interior walls. The roof, furnace and most appliances are less than 5 years old. Dual heat uses indoor oil fired furnace and outdoor wood furnace. The barn is 140' long and set up with about 68 free stalls and mats. There are also 2 box stalls. The barn will hold about 80 head. There is an attached 16 swing New Zealand style milking parlor. All fixtures are less than 5 years old. There is also a 32x48' shop building with high overhead clearance. Attached garage and woodshed. There is also a very nice two section outbuilding that has a half concrete floor with gates and water. The other half is used for equipment. $359,000

12356 A VERY RARE JEWEL OF A DAIRY FARM: The buildings and land on this farm are in excellent shape. This is a showplace that has and will continue to make money. There are 500 acres with 150 tillable, 150 pasture and 175 woods. Silt loam soils. High tensile fencing. 2 miles of road frontage. There is a 240 cow free stall barn with 36x60 milking parlor with a 5000 gallon bulk tank, all with Unilam rafter construction. The main barn is 70x135 with a 36x100 wing. There are (2) 20x80 Harvestors, (3) 20x60 Harvestors plus a 20x70 concrete silo and a 25x70 Slurrystore. 1.25 million gallon manure storage. Also a 38x104 machinery shed plus another 40x60 machine shed. There is also a 3-car 44x34 garage, a two story heated shop that is 24x24, a 40x50 machinery repair shop. There is 440 amp service to the barn. The ranch type home has 9 rooms with 3 bedrooms upstairs with a full bath. Downstairs are living room, kitchen, dining room, half bath, laundry room and office. Patio. The home has recently been remodeled. Inground swimming pool. There is a second and 200 more acres available. $2,000,000

12380     FREE STALL FARM WITH VIEWS NOW RUNNING BEEF:  Beef farm with views and what will be a great home. This has 155 acres, of which 70-80 are tillable and another 20-30 are pasture, the remainder being wooded. It is in 2 parcels (118 acres on the home place and 47 acres nearby) and has a large amount of road frontage on each one. There are southern views from everywhere, several streams, one pond, and a couple of good pond sites for others if someone desires more. The home will require some explanation. The original part is about 200 years old, as evidenced by the hand-hewn beams and pegged post and beam construction. From the outside, it looks fairly new and has log siding, with a very large addition (20x30' - 2 stories) with 8 dormers and spacious wraparound porches, positioned to take advantage of the views. The home has 3400 square feet of living space, 10 rooms, 5 bedrooms and 2 full baths. There are 2 oil hot air furnaces, a newer one and a much older old one which they do not use any longer, but was left in place as a backup. There are also 2 wood stoves (which will stay with the property) and a massive stone fireplace. Water is from an excellent spring. The chimney has 4 flues. Downstairs, there is a large living room with a new entranceway added to it. To one side is a large study and, going straight, is the dining room, which is 16x20'. It has knotty pine paneling and will have a new hardwood floor. It also serves as sort of a hub room. All these rooms have the hand-hewn beams exposed. To the right, off the dining room, is a completely new kitchen, which has a door opening to one of the porches for easy barbecuing. It has cathedral ceilings with pine paneling and whole tree rafters exposed. The cabinets were custom made by Amish craftsmen and they have granite countertops. The appliances here are new and they stay with the property. The floor is ceramic tile and it has track lighting. Off the other side of the dining room is a large bath, which has ceramic tile floors. A separate tiny room in the bath houses the toilet. Next to it, also coming off the dining room is a large laundry (new appliances, which stay). A child's play loft is above this. Beyond the laundry is a large mud room, with a coat closet. Both these rooms have pine wall paneling and ceilings. Beyond the dining room is the 20x30' Great Room. Again, there are wood floors, walls and ceilings with whole tree joists exposed. Floors here are oak. This is where the fireplace is located. Windows are strategically placed to take advantage of the views. Upstairs are 5 bedrooms. Four of these are (or will be) normal-sized. A hall is planned that will make the largest smaller. There is planned another full bath and more closet space in part of this space. Though this future hallway, you come to the master bedroom, which has its own separate full bath, with Jacuzzi tub, 2 walk-in closets. This room measures 20x30', has whole tree rafters exposed and pine paneled walls and ceilings with a wood floor. The main barn is 30 years old, or pole construction and measures 45x90' or more. It could house 60 cows easily, though there are only freestalls for 24 in there now. It was originally a dairy barn and the BouMatic pipeline (services a 6 stall flat parlour) and 1000g bulk tank are still there and could be reused. This barn is clear-span and could also be used as a riding arena. There is also a 31x40' carriage house and it has very high ceilings and would make an excellent 6 box stall horse barn. There is room in it for a small apartment as well + it has hay storage overhead. Done right, this could be a very attractive building. $375,000

OK, I have been telling you the good stuff. Now some disclaimers: do not expect to see this property in a pristine state. There are WAY too many possessions there - and they are everywhere. The owners are moving their operation to a western state and have been paring down on what they own, but there is a very long way to go. The outside has old machinery parked everywhere. There is just stuff everywhere you turn. You will have to look beyond this to realize just how nice this property can be. If you can't imagine it with everything gone, you need to wait to see it until after this has happened - if it lasts that long on the market. Another thing - not all the work has been done. One half of the study needs finishing, the dining room floor needs to be installed, and some general sprucing up and finish work is needed in the older rooms. There are a number of these small projects that are unfinished and the owner will work on them, as well as the cleanup, as time allows.

The following machinery is available to purchase with the property; otherwise he will schedule an auction before the closing and it will disappear then: JD 4020 with cab, JD 2010 with rebuilt engine (still at the shop), David Brown 1200 with somewhat older rebuilt engine, JD 440 track loader (new track and clutch), 3 NH 1469 self-propelled haybines, JD 480 haybine, 2 IH 47 balers with kickers, Kuhn tedder, 2 JD 115 forage wagons, NH forage wagon, 4-5 hay wagons with kicker racks, 3 bottom plows, disc, drags, old IH corn planter, 2 NH 329 manure spreaders, NH 69 flail chopper, post hole digger, back blade, finish mower, bush hog.

SOLD

12969 YOUR CHOICE, DAIRY OR HOBBY FARM IN OTSEGO COUNTY : This one can go either way. There are 113 acres here with 30 acres tillable, 20 of woods and the rest is pasture. There is sufficient acreage nearby available to rent for any additional forage needs. Pastoral setting with no close neighbors, a year round creek and good hunting just 20 minutes from Cooperstown . There is a very nice circa 1885 12 room home that will please most everyone. Downstairs there is a large eat-in kitchen with a walk thru pantry, dining room, living room, bedroom, family room, office and a full bath with laundry. Upstairs there is a large sitting room, 3 bedrooms (one with a nursery), a storage room and another bath. Also a full attic and 3/4 concrete basement with outside access and the yard is partially enclosed for your four legged friends. It has a 7 year old asphalt shingle roof, a 3 year old oil hot air furnace, all new thermopane windows, aluminum siding, a new 1000 gallon concrete septic, twin 275 gallon oil tanks, 150 amp electric service and a 105' drilled well with ample water to service both the house and barn in even the dryest years. Appliances are included. The 2 story dairy barn is 36'x80' with a 38'x160' single story addition. There are 84 milking ties with 28 heifer stalls and 10 calf stalls. The milking portion has been recently remodeled with new stalls, full cow mattresses, patzgard mangers and a 2" Surge pipeline with 3" vacuum which allows them to milk 70 cows/hour with 10 units. It has two 20'x70' Harvestores and a 16'x55' concrete stave silo with a Patz unloader, both Clay and Patz barn cleaners to an enclosed spreader room, 200 amp electric service and 2 bulk tanks for 1140 gallons in a heated milk house. There is also a 36'x55' loose housing shed with water for young stock, a 45'x70' enclosed machinery shed, another 27'x 30' open pole shed, a 25'x75' 5 bay garage, even a 15'x18' chicken coop and 2 steel grainary bins. Taxes are $4500. Asking price is $325,000. 

SOLD

12308 MOVE IN AND MILK AT THIS OTSEGO COUNTY DAIRY: Here is a good family farm in a good location. It has 169 acres with 51 acres of woods and the balance open. One field is a full 40 acres. All has been seeded to grass or alfalfa. Silt loam soils in gently rolling fields. There is 1,438' frontage on a paved road. There is a a stream and the pasture is fenced. Circa 1750 10 room Colonial home is in very good condition and has 3-4 bedrooms, 1 ½ baths, wide plank and hardwood floors. New windows upstairs. On the first floor are kitchen, living room, office, bath, laundry and another room for a possible bedroom. On the second floor are 3 bedrooms and another half-bath. Garage. The post and beam barn is in very good condition and has 57 stalls on 2” Surge pipeline plus 4 box stalls. 550 gallon Sunset flat tank. Patz cleaner with new chain. 18x40 Madison CS silo with Patz unloader surface chain. Two earth sided bunkers. 28x81' storage barn. 28x65 shop. The barn has high ceilings with a drive-in mow. Run-in barn with 40 steel locking headlocks. Nice barn to Work in. Taxes total about $4800. Great farm for someone who farms with horses.  $295,000

SOLD

12999    230 ACRE FAMILY FARM IN SOUTHERN ONEIDA COUNTY:

To say that this farm has many options would be putting it mildly. There are 150 acres of some of the finest cropland available in Central New York . Almost completely Honeoye Silt Loam soil in large, nearly level fields. There are 35 acres of good hardwoods waiting to be harvested with an estimated $40,000 worth of timber and excellent hunting. There are 4 ponds with several other good pond sites. There is enough barn space to raise any type of livestock your heart desires. There is 6400 ft of road frontage on two good paved roads if subdivision is your thing. You should be getting the idea by now. Oh yeah, and no close neighbors. The over 200 year old 12 room Early American home is in overall fair to good condition with a kitchen, dining room, living room, 2 bedrooms, bath and 2 storage rooms down and 2 bedrooms, a nursery and 2 more storage rooms up. The rear of the home (the 4 storage rooms) have not been used in decades and will need considerable work but could possibly be made into an in-law apartment. It has a 2 car attached garage, vinyl siding, 200 amp electric service, a full walk up attic, full concrete basement, an older but well maintained oil hot water heating system, a 2000 gallon concrete septic tank and a 25 ft drilled well with an unlimited supply of sweet water. All appliances are included. The barns and outbuildings are in predominantly decent shape. They include a 2 story drive in 36'x150' dairy barn with 65 stanchions, two box stalls and an addition on the back with 3 large box stalls for work horses.  Also a 30'x30' storage barn with a 20'x25' extension, a 24'x48' machinery shed and a 40'x72' 4 bay enclosed pole barn. There is another 2 story drive in 36'x80' dairy barn  about a quarter mile down the road. A full line of older but reliable haying equipment (being used this year) is available at extra cost. Total taxes are $8200 with the star program. Madison School District . Asking price is $360,000.

SOLD

12733 FREE STALL DAIRY OF DISTINCTION: This 135 cow Dairy of Distinction is operated as a purchase feed operation. The tenant there has a lease until May 1st. If you buy now, the owner will turn over the lease and feed sales receipts to you. They average $9-10000/month! The barn is 88x213', a 4 row drive-through with curtained sidewalls & scrabbled concrete, and there e is room to expand to more stalls if needed. It has pens for maternity + about 20 calves. The milking center is 36x90' and houses a double 6 parallel parlour with a 3” low line, ATO's, the works. There is a 2000g bulk tank as well. There are 3 uprights (145x40, 16x60 and 18x60, all with unloaders) and 2 bunkers (28x160' & 60x160'). A heifer barn is 54x120' and a machine shed is 40x60'. These are all nearly new buildings. Manure storage is for one week, or you can haul daily. A drilled well and pond provide water. The 100 year old home is 2 family and has spring water. The owner's side is the nicer one. There are total of 8 bedrooms, 2 baths. There are some thermopane windows, vinyl siding, a newer furnace (OHA), a brand new 1000g septic and a new roof will be put on soon. It has been insulated and has carpet and hardwood floors. An attached garage can hold 2 cars. It enjoys a good view. The farm has 90 acres (the 6th generation owner rents 500 more) and 70-75 are tillable. Another 10 are pastured and there is a stream and a pond there. There is nearly 6000' of frontage here on 3 roads. Taxes are $5500 before deductions. $350,000.

12987 LANE'S END 97 COW OTSEGO COUNTY DAIRY: Beautiful, private country setting for this 140 acre farm located in southern Otsego County . The farm is within an easy drive of both Oneonta and Cooperstown . The buildings are nestled at the end of your own 800 foot private driveway. The 140 acres is gently rolling and consists of 60 acres tillable cropland with 40 woods and the balance in pasture. There is 1,600 feet of frontage on a county road. The home is a country cape with 12 rooms consisting of eat-in kitchen, living room, family room, bath and office downstairs with 4 bedrooms and 2 nd bath up. The kitchen has beautiful Woodmode cabinets. Dishwasher, oven and range are included. The main dairy barn was milked in last year. It has 97 stalls on 2 inch Delaval pipeline and measures 40x250'. The three silos are 20x60, 16x50 and 16x40. There is also a 32x60 pole machine shed, a 30x40 two story carriage barn and a 30x50 heifer barn with 25 stalls. A new 40x60 shop was used to display abd repair machinery that the owner sold. The taxes are $4,474. This farm would also be ideal for horses or beef. It has good hunting and views and the setting is irreplaceable. $365,000

12952RV/JS/DM 1800 ACRE DAIRY FOR 750 HEAD: Seldom does such a large well-run and well-kept farm come on the market. This is one that has stayed in the family for 135 years and it has 1800 acres. 1000 of them are tillable! This is mostly sandy loam soil, with some gravely loams and a small bit of clay loams. It has all been tile drained and ditched as needed and is growing wonderful crops. I was first there in the 3rd week of August and found alfalfa to my knees - 4th cutting! A very low elevation allows a much longer growing season that would be expected (the farm is located in Clinton County , near the border with Lake Champlain and Canada ). Parts of it border on I 87, the Great Chazy River (and many smaller streams) and also the famed Miner Institute. Village water does not quite reach the farm but 3 phase power does. The owners have 750 head here, raise HMSC and do not rent any land! Fields are huge, and nearly level. There may not be a more productive land base for sale anywhere in the state than this one. 135 years in the same family certainly shows. All barns are Morton buildings and are new since 1988 and they sport 3 year old roofs. This is an exceptionally well thought out and efficient setup. It is also extraordinarily clean - you just do not find messes anywhere. Even the machinery is washed and waxed regularly. The pride the owners take in their enterprise shows throughout. No muddy areas, neat drives with no potholes, manicured lawns, and flowering plums and blue spruce are strategically placed for landscaping effectiveness. Everything is in excellent condition - land, buildings, home, cattle and machinery. This is a place in which no one ever has to go outside during inclement weather. The main barn is 102x350” and has 400 freestalls, with mattresses and automatic alley scrapers which feed into a 26x102' Slurrystore which has 7 months capacity for the entire herd. The BouMatic parlour is a double 12, fully updated, and the bulk tank is a 3200 gallon Surge with a tube cooler. The water supply is more than ample and comes from 3 drilled wells. There is a 305 hp Onan generator which self starts and is big enough to run the entire farm in a normal fashion (and it has cheap 3 phase power, too). There is an employee room with with toilet and shower as well. Feeding is fully automated and comes from 9 Harvestore silos (2-25x90, 2 - 20x90, 5 - 20x80). It is mixed in a custom-made 15 ton TMR mixer,l which has 1” thick side walls. There is a separate feed office and there is also a hospital pen. All heifers are housed in 2 adjoining buildings. Their feed and manure is handled identically to that of the cows and they also have mattresses and alley scrapers. The calf and yearling barn is 80x100' and has 70 single pens, 4 group pens, and 120 freestalls. the pens area has a separate barn clean to handle the manure. Manure from all the heifers ends up via huge ram pumps in the Slurrystore, along with that of the milkers. The older heifer barn is also 80x100' and has 175 freestalls. There are various large bedding and utility rooms in these barns and the square footage is much higher than the figures given because of connecting rooms and causeways. It is possible to walk on a catwalk above the cows and heifers to unobtrusively observe the entire herd without getting your feed dirty. There are 2 machinery sheds: one is 40x150 and houses machinery and dry hay. The other is 40x120' and has the farm shop area as well as more machinery housing. There is a large permanent liquid nitrogen tank for the corn. The 75 year old farm home is also very superior and have been very recently redone. It has vinyl siding, new architectural shingles, landscaping blocks and walks, a large deck area, a wraparound porch. Inside, you will find a living room, parlor, modern kitchen, dining room, and bath. On the second floor are 5 bedrooms and another bath, making a total of 9 rooms. Floors are ceramic tile and tiled linoleum, as appropriate. Heat is oil hot water and there is an attached garage for one car. They milk 260 grade Holsteins and have 480 head. While not on test, the herd is bred nearly all artificially. The farm is fully CAFO compliant. What a great line of machinery - all meticulously cared-for: CIH 9370 w/cabs and tracks, 2 CIH 7110's w/cab and 4wd, CIH 8940 w/4wd, IH 1566 w/cab,IH 1456, IH turbo 806,and an articulated AC 305 w/ cab and 4 wd, self-propelled NH H W340 discbine, Miller rake, hay elevator on wheels, 2 steel hay wagons, NH FX45 self-propelled chopper w/6 row and 10' hay heads, Miller blower, 3 H & S SU wagons w/roofs and tandem running gears, 10 bottom IH plows, CIH 16' chisel plows, CIH 26' disc, 26' drags, rollers, Kinze 3600 12 row corn planter, 12' Pepin seeder, 1000g sprayer, fertilizer spreader, Bodgo 7200 tank manure spreader w/triple axles, NH skidsteer, H & S stock trailer, automatic roller mill, seed corn blower to fill the planter, 1000g Nitrogen application tank, nurse tank, bedding chopper, NH TR 98 combine w/6 row head which chops stocks as well as combines grain. Much, much more equipment that has not been listed. Taxes are only about $26000   NOTE: THE PRICE WAS JUST REDUCED TO $4,500,000 COMPLETE

NOTE: In the last few months, they have invested another $900,000-1,000,000 in the property. Real estate improvements include all new feeders and conveyors plus a 3,000,000 gallon Slurrystore with a new periperal equipment. There are also significant changes to the machinery lineup, the most valuable of which is a new $400,000 NH chopper (self-propelled, with self greasing and self-sharpening features), but there is also a new combine, new skid steer, new haybine with 16' cut, new blower, and a new gravity wagon.

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12913    LONG-TIME OWNERS SELLING 108 COW OTSEGO CO. FARM: This farm is located in the Wharton Valley and the Wharton Creek runs through it. The creek has never run dry in the 46 years that the owners have been on the farm. The main 2 story barn has 108 stalls on 2” pipeline with box stall and calf raising area. The milkhouse has a 1,250 gallon Mueller tank with a pre heater and oil hot water heater. The barn has a new 440 amp electrical entrance and a new 36' feed room. There are 2 Patz barn cleaners, a Van Dale TMR mixer with elevators from all the silos to the mixer. It has a 20x44 and 20x80 Harvestor plus a 18x60 concrete; all with unloaders. 10 ton Brock feed bin. There is a 20 head loose housing set-up for heifers next to the main barn. 32x80 barn for dry cows or storage. 30x60 shop and hay barn. Also a 30x60 machine shed and separate office building near the home. The home has 5 bedrooms, kitchen, 2 full baths, living room, dining room and enclosed entrance porch, all in good condition. It has a full basement with a new hot air furnace, new windows and new insulation in the attic. 1000 gallon septic. 185' deep well. There is an excellent well for the barn that never runs dry. There is also a 2000 gallon septic system for the milkhouse. There are 216 acres total with 103 acres of excellent tillable land. There are 105 acres of pasture and 5 acres of woods. There is also a separate deeded 2.78 acre lot with house trailer that is included with the farm. Taxes are $2500 with the Star Program. The owners are anxious to retire and would like all offers submitted.  ASKING $347,000

12917    440 ACRE COOPERSTOWN AREA INVESTMENT OR DEVELOPMENT OPPORTUNITY: Located just 10 miles north of Cooperstown and one mile north of Otsego Lake, near the Baseball Hall of Fame, the Fenimore Art Museum , the Glimmerglass Opera House and the New York State Farmer's Museum in a rapidly developing tourist area are 440 contiguous acres with 360 acres or highly fertile cropland and 40 acres of mature woods. It boasts 4.3 miles of paved road frontage including half a mile on U.S. Route 20, a recent federally designated “Scenic Byway”. Included with the property are also boat launch and slip rental privileges on Otsego Lake , the famed “Glimmerglass” of novelist James Fenimore Cooper. The property is currently a fully operational modern dairy farm with a main barn measuring 60x120 with 73 milking stalls and 45 stalls for young stock. Other buildings include a 40x80 dry cow and storage barn, a 30x50 calf barn and 40x80 equipment shed with a heated shop. There are 6 concrete silos. There are also 3 homes. The main home is 120 years old and in good condition with 10 rooms including 5 bedrooms. The second home is a 3 bedroom, 2 ½ bath fifteen year old doublewide with a basement in very good condition. The third home is a 3 bedroom, 2 bath singlewide with an addition. A fourth home may also be made available, if necessary. Taxes are $10,000. This is an investment opportunity second to none. Cooperstown has become the magic word. Contact us if you would like more details. $2,000,000

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