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Location: MT | Our place is 10 acres and I'd like to do something on it to help generate some income. We have a very short growing season (average of 75 days).
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Location: Phoenix | Could you section some of it off for boarding purposes? Like rent a pasture or two? |
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Location: MT | hammer_time - 2013-12-27 10:53 AM Could you section some of it off for boarding purposes? Like rent a pasture or two?
That was my original thought. Our pasture is dryland so it would have to be pens. My husband is not overly crazy about boarders being around all the time though. Also, the market for boarding has gone down here quite a bit since the college built a boarding facility for the horse program students here. |
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Location: MT | Other things I've thought about are raising some pigs and feeding out steers.
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| Cash crop
grow lights, room and water is all you need.
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| Have you ever fed out a pig? Talk about STINK! LOL. I love my bacon but SHEWWW. My neighbor raised boer goats on his 10 acres. I don't know a thing about goats other than they don't stink as bad as pigs, at least in my experience. Now my other neighbor has goats but they are not boers they are the rangy billy goat type and she has way too many, along with a multitude of sheep, geese, chickens and a rather large herd of cats, all on 10 acres. I don't think she's making any money, only more baby goats. |
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| DD2012 - 2013-12-27 12:31 PM Cash crop grow lights, room and water is all you need.
And its not that far from WA and CO so your transportation cost are minimal! |
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Location: BFE, Idaho | How is your water situation, that makes a huge difference. Do you have irrigation water(water shares/rites).
Can you at least water 1-2 acres?
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| Chickens? (Meat or Eggs) |
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Location: Slipping down the slope of old age. Boo hoo. | Are you near a city / town with nice restaurants? If so, there may be a good demand for fresh vegetables. You may be able to talk with local chefs and determine the vegetables they want....and grow what they want. The entire "farm to table" trend is huge these days.... folk love to know their food was grown/sourced locally. If you are willing to grow and provide wat the chefs want it could be a nice income.... and it certainly would not stink like pigs. |
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Location: Oklahoma | Pumpkin patch and a corn stalk maze during the fall. Do you have a talent that you could offer classes? |
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Location: Where we still run to look when the siren goes by. | Just Plain Lucky - 2013-12-27 11:55 AM Chickens? (Meat or Eggs)
Chickens are aggravating and not much of a money maker on the small scale. 
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Location: MT | horsefever - 2013-12-27 11:36 AM Have you ever fed out a pig? Talk about STINK! LOL. I love my bacon but SHEWWW. My neighbor raised boer goats on his 10 acres. I don't know a thing about goats other than they don't stink as bad as pigs, at least in my experience. Now my other neighbor has goats but they are not boers they are the rangy billy goat type and she has way too many, along with a multitude of sheep, geese, chickens and a rather large herd of cats, all on 10 acres. I don't think she's making any money, only more baby goats.
They do stink! My sister and I used to take pigs for 4-H waaaaay back in the day.
I had thought of the pigs and feeder steers because they take up less space and we wouldn't have to have them on pasture. |
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Location: ND | if you're talkin once a month movie cash or for a pop when you're in town then maybe some of these will do that for you......honestly......the only real money making suggestion has been by DD.....that has some risk/reward issues in MT though....... |
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Location: MT | Rodeo Rose - 2013-12-27 12:35 PM Just Plain Lucky - 2013-12-27 11:55 AM Chickens? (Meat or Eggs) Chickens are aggravating and not much of a money maker on the small scale.
I figured that I would have to have at least 400 chickens to make it a money maker here (enough to make it my job). Not sure my neighbors would be so hot about the idea.
The Hutterites sell a lot of frozen chickens and turkeys here. Might be something to look into for sure!
Edited by ruggedchica 2013-12-27 1:59 PM
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Location: MT | Idaho - 2013-12-27 11:50 AM How is your water situation, that makes a huge difference. Do you have irrigation water(water shares/rites).
Can you at least water 1-2 acres?
Legally, we can water up to 5 acres off of our domestic well. They aren't allowing any new irrigation wells in our county so we couldn't do a separate irrigation well.
Something I had thought about too, was dryland peas? We have only a small acreage we could put them in though so not sure about that. |
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Location: MT | dhdqhllc - 2013-12-27 12:47 PM if you're talkin once a month movie cash or for a pop when you're in town then maybe some of these will do that for you......honestly......the only real money making suggestion has been by DD.....that has some risk/reward issues in MT though.......
True that...
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Location: MT | Delta Cowgirl - 2013-12-27 12:28 PM Are you near a city / town with nice restaurants? If so, there may be a good demand for fresh vegetables. You may be able to talk with local chefs and determine the vegetables they want....and grow what they want. The entire "farm to table" trend is huge these days.... folk love to know their food was grown/sourced locally. If you are willing to grow and provide wat the chefs want it could be a nice income.... and it certainly would not stink like pigs.
This is something I need to look into. Our town is pretty small (about 5,000) but there may be opportunities in neighboring towns.
We have already talked about putting in a greenhouse which would be a must. |
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Location: MT | Morab76 - 2013-12-27 12:33 PM Pumpkin patch and a corn stalk maze during the fall. Do you have a talent that you could offer classes?
Pumpkins! I think that's something that could work here. We are really short growing season for corn. |
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| Raspberries in wind tunnels. The tunnels can extend the growing season by 30-40 days. |
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