What is your take on this

mnmthunting

mnmthunting

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OK, as some of you may know I leave a lot of my land for the critters. I have probably 80 acres or so of marsh stuff, soggy ground flat and rich.
I have been getting ag homestead on all this property.
Now they tell me its recreational, yeah I guess. Taxes are going to be far to much to support the wild critters.
So with water tables down I'm getting one of those new tile machines, pull behind the tractor, put in plastic tile.
Next year I'll have the purtiest corn field in North Central Minnesota.:)
OR land I can sell for 2500 per acre.:cheers:
So who do you get pizzed at? Me or the times. :confused:

Besides that! I will keep it at ag homestead.
 
I suppose there is no cropping history so CRP is out. What about WRP?
 
mnmthunting said:
OK, as some of you may know I leave a lot of my land for the critters. I have probably 80 acres or so of marsh stuff, soggy ground flat and rich.
I have been getting ag homestead on all this property.
Now they tell me its recreational, yeah I guess. Taxes are going to be far to much to support the wild critters.
So with water tables down I'm getting one of those new tile machines, pull behind the tractor, put in plastic tile.
Next year I'll have the purtiest corn field in North Central Minnesota.:)
OR land I can sell for 2500 per acre.:cheers:
So who do you get pizzed at? Me or the times. :confused:

Besides that! I will keep it at ag homestead.
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I could start booking hunts for you to help pay the taxes:D
 
I'm sorry to hear that. I don't know by who or how swamp can be classified as recreational but it seems inappropriate. Maybe your first call should be to a Land attorney as I know allot of taxing issues are local and if challenged you might get a favorable ruling.

Good luck.
 
That's to bad, sorry to hear it. I know tons of different critters love to call those swampy areas home. I don't blame you though. If you had that here in Cali I'm sure you could get $10-15k a year leasing a duck blind on it.
 
Can you plant a little wild rice or the like & call it ag? Any loopholes for "unimproved/natural habitat, private reserve/historical significance," etc.? I don't know, but thought I'd throw this out. Good luck.
 
Not only the low ground. Plantations, brush, Woodlands. If it's not pasture or crop it's considered recreational. It's not like I'm not being taxed the way it is.

MAN! I could do a lot of hunting trips for the taxes I pay on this stuff.:eek:
This is probably going on with land owners all over the state. :eek:
 
Leave it to our gov't to mess a good thing up. Their masters at it!

MN, I have a friend who lives on 20 acres. He's surrounded by other habitats so we wanted to install wildflowers and warm seasons to help link the habitats and with chick rearing.

He backed out due to the property taxes. So instead he hays everything each spring to keep in in ag.

It's too bad what's happening to you up there. I know you're passionate about habitat and what to do all you can. Unfortunately good ol' taxes are getting in your way of that as they do with so much else.:(
 
Is any of it capable of being hayed? If you start haying a portion, it it should remain agricultural. Not your fault if some years it is to wet to hay.
 
I think the unfortunate situation that MNM is in highlights the same dilemma that farmers and ranchers have when questioning if to put ground into CRP or remove a fence line or grove. MNM is passionate about wildlife and is having difficulty deciding to pay the bill. Imagine a farmer or rancher who is not as passionate about hunting.
 
Your state, audubon, du, etc. has easement programs to let you off the hook. Are you particularly interested in passing this land down or is your primary considerations maintaining in the current state?
 
Nature Conservancy seemed interested. However NC has projects going mainly in the West and not in Northern MN. They are spending millions on projects in MT.

USF&W, Well:confused: Something else to deal with these people.:eek:
 
Wirehairs said:
Is any of it capable of being hayed? If you start haying a portion, it it should remain agricultural. Not your fault if some years it is to wet to hay.
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I could run a perimeter fence, put a cow in it. MAN! that would be spendy!
Dad bought this chunk about 1950. Nice meadow hay, this land had a drainage ditch put in in the 30's. Dad bought the land with the hay stacks on it. Few wet years and beaver moved in changed the way the meadow drained. Dad just let the land go, Dad was also into wildlife, deer pheasants, ducks, grouse.
Dad told lots of stories about the Prairie Chickens, there were a ton of them in this area. Still is a small protected flock a few miles to the SE of us. The State maintains a WMA for prairie chickens.
 
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