From modeland@southshore.com Fri Oct 10 12:47:17 1997 Date: Fri, 10 Oct 1997 10:53:14 -0500 From: Vern/Phyllis Modeland Reply-To: homestead@listserv.oit.unc.edu To: homestead@listserv.oit.unc.edu, FranksFarm@aol.com Subject: farm properties [The following text is in the "ISO-8859-1" character set] [Your display is set for the "US-ASCII" character set] [Some characters may be displayed incorrectly] Frank, I'll put this on the list instead of posting it privately as the information may be of interest to others. First, your $250,000 can go a long way in this neck of the woods toward buying a first-class farming operation. That amount of acerage, cleared, is likely to cost only about half that amount hereabouts. Taxes would simarly be much lest. Chase Gene GeRue down for details on the Missouri side. Secondly, in developing your farm idea, have you made contact with Gary Valen yet at the SPCA in Washington, DC? Gary, a farm-community fella himself, was involved when with the Kerr Center for Sustainable Agriculture in Okla. in getting small farms up and running and getting us back to community rather than corporate agriculture. In him you'll find a sympathetic and perhaps helpful contact. Vern in the Ozarks