Should be worth somewhere north of $10,000 per acre as farmland. More of someone wants to put a housing development, industrial park (or datacenter) on it.
From: AF <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Bill Prince Sent: Tuesday, August 26, 2025 12:28 PM To: AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [AFMUG] rural areas and fiber I might ask my sister. She lives in Illinois, and her husband's family owned a 3,000 acre farm back when they were pups. He's passed away, but I was under the impression that his brothers and sisters maintained the farm, and I presumed their children as well. My sister's kids went completely away from farming. But I dunno. He had sold (or given up?) his interest in the farm, and went to work for Caterpillar, where he stayed until he retired. So I have no clue what happened to their farm, but at that acreage, it's got to be close to 5 square miles. -- bp part15sbs{at}gmail{dot}com On Sat, Aug 23, 2025 at 9:15 AM Ken Hohhof <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > wrote: In some areas we serve where houses are a mile apart and the nearest town with a Walmart is 15 miles away, people tell me that when a homeowner dies (many are in their 70’s and 80’s), they won’t even list the house because nobody wants to live in the middle of nowhere. It will be abandoned, or torn down to and turned back into farmland. We no longer have small family farms with the farm family living in a house on the land, because you need to farm so many acres to make a profit. If a farmhouse is near a town, it may become a rental house, but not when it’s 10 miles from the nearest town or school. But I expect some company will be awarded $15K+ each to pass these houses with fiber. If it takes 4 years to complete, the house might not even be occupied by then, and in any case, the 80 year old occupant probably doesn’t care if they have gigabit Internet. So will fiber make these houses suddenly desirable, and work from home people will move there from the cities, towns and suburbs? Reviving these rural areas where the younger generation has moved away? I guess that’s the vision, I’m not sure I buy it. Well and septic and propane, quarter mile driveway to plow in winter, but blazing fast Internet, and you can have horses and chickens. Will they start building subdivisions out there once fiber is available? I’m not buying it. Am I wrong? -- AF mailing list [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com
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