Farms:
Want to earn part or all your living from a farm? You are at the right place. Our farming areas all have a long future ahead of them and we can't wait to welcome you to the neighborhood. We are here to make your buying experience a great one.
Be sure to check other pages for properties that are somewhat larger or smaller than this as you may find something just right there. And don't forget to look under "Country Living" as well. Some of the "Acreage" properties have barns, so if you don't need a home, that is another spot to search.
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Want to earn part or all your living from a farm? You are at the right place. Our farming areas all have a long future ahead of them and we can't wait to welcome you to the neighborhood. We are here to make your buying experience a great one.
Be sure to check other pages for properties that are somewhat larger or smaller than this as you may find something just right there. And don't forget to look under "Country Living" as well. Some of the "Acreage" properties have barns, so if you don't need a home, that is another spot to search.
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NEW LISTING. #1164 - Eastern Herkimer County. 137 acre hobby farm in the town of Danube, southeastern Herkimer County. The property is centered in the Amish community and close to the produce auction site. There are 55A. tillable, organic soil, (presently in hay), remainder of land in woods consisting of oak, maple, walnut, as well as pine.
Very nice, well cared for colonial home dating back to 1860 with 2300 Sq. Ft. living area with a full and unusually good basement. The home has 4 BR, 1 Bath, 10 rooms total. Theres is a galley kitchen, formal dining room and a living room plus an office downstairs. The two porches are an 8’x13’ enclosed porch and a front porch which is 5’x9’. All appliances are included with the home. Oil hot air heat and a drilled well keep the systems up to date.
Across the paved road is a 30’x36’ Gothic-arched roof garage with a full loft and crushed stone downstairs floor which was built in 1955. Alongside it is a small pond. Attractive and well-kept lawns surround both the pond and the homestead. One family has owned this property since 1940 taking obvious pride in its appearance.
It has a great deal of road frontage - 4215’. Yearly taxes total just $3,902. Elderly owners are no longer able to live there. Asking $360,000.
Contact Larry Casler At 315-823-2970.
Contact Larry Casler At 315-823-2970.
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#1157 Central Montgomery County. - I have driven by this for decades and, each time, I admire it, hoping some day we’d get it for sale. Well, we did! It is a 146 acre old homestead in a prime site, located in the Town of Palatine, New York. There are 120 tiled and tillable acres, presently rented, with corn and alfalfa seeding and the remaining 26 acres are in pasture. This is some of the nicest land in the State, mostly Lansing and Palatine silt loams - most all gentle land. Anywhere you stand on the property, there are expansive valley views.
The 36’x100’ gambrel style barn is in good condition with swing stanchions, used most recently for heifer raising. There are 38 stalls plus a box stall and room for 12 additional stalls if you wanted to use the entire space. Gravity-fed spring water is an excellent source for the barn’s needs, flowing to a concrete trough in the barnyard and also pumped to the buckets in the mangers. There is a manure stacker so you don’t have to fight snow to spread manure, and you‘ll get all its nutrients too. There are two other approximately 20’x50’ (2), and a 30x44' building (1), in fair condition. The biggest and one of the smaller ones are both 2 story.
A 200 year old home is included. It is in fair condition, with a full cellar, but has no bathroom or plumbing. Square and straight, it has 1144 sq. ft of living space with 4 bedrooms. There is a small 2 story garage and an apple orchard next to it. Between the barn and the road (the barn sits well off it) is a great shaded spot to locate a new home.
0he wide open fields with 7555’ road frontage, proximity to town and overlooking the Mohawk Valley with the views to prove it, makes this an outstanding homestead. Two small streams run through the pastures. Taxes are $5600 with the Star deduction not applied. Asking $500,000. The seller is looking for offers and will consider them all.
For the salesman most familiar with it, contact Larry Casler at 315-823-2970.
For the salesman most familiar with it, contact Larry Casler at 315-823-2970.
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NEW LISTING #1125 Central Montgomery County
Want complete and utter privacy? Sweeping and long views? Absolute quiet? A real homestead where you can be self-sufficient if you want? Look no further than this Amish-built farm that has had so many updates from it’s inception less than 35 years ago. The property lies down a private lane .7 miles from the main road. This lane only goes to you and to no one else.
Want complete and utter privacy? Sweeping and long views? Absolute quiet? A real homestead where you can be self-sufficient if you want? Look no further than this Amish-built farm that has had so many updates from it’s inception less than 35 years ago. The property lies down a private lane .7 miles from the main road. This lane only goes to you and to no one else.
There are 101 acres here (99.7 on tax maps - it is soon to be surveyed) and the owner says 40 of them are tillable, in corn and new hay seedings, high lime Palatine and Wassaic soils, with Nellis loam in much of the woods. These are among New York State's very finest soils. The remainder of the land is divided between pasture and woods, with woods being the greater half. In the woods are about 500 tappable sugar maples, also hickory and beech, along with some cedar and hemlock. Many trees are 2’ or more in diameter. Great value here if you want to take a timber cutting. There is a stream through the pasture and woods and it ends at a large creek, also on the property. Water for the home and barns is from a new 190’ drilled well - no sulfur either.
This is a perfect place for someone who wants to take charge of their own food. You will find bearing apple, plum, peach, pear and cherry trees in the orchard and asparagus, strawberries, blueberries, rhubarb + 5 rows of something you will not see elsewhere - Navaho raspberries (huge sweet berries that produce until they frost). Just one limb on a dwarf peach tree bore 100 peaches last summer.
The home was originally built as an Amish residence in 1986 and has 2366 square feet of living space plus a full dry walk-out basement. All full-dimension lumber was used. The owner has recently painted both the home and barn, put in new wiring, a new septic, new windows, new roof, R30 insulation in the attic, new kitchen and bath. Most rooms have been re-sheetrocked, to a higher standard than even the one the Amish employ. There are 2 brand new baths as well.
The home has a wrap-around porch, summer kitchen (w/wood cookstove, used as a winter sunroom), and an attached woodshed. Inside is a new oak galley kitchen, pantry, dining (with 2 sets of double French doors) and living rooms plus a bath and the master bedroom downstairs. On the second floor is a large hall, 4 bedrooms and a huge second bath.
Heat is by an air-tight wood cookstove with a parlour stove for the coldest days. Electric is by a combination of solar (2000 watts), wind (2000 watts), and if you need them, 2 2000 watt and a a 4000 watt generator, which can be hooked in tandem if you wished. The bigger generator can run for 14 hours on a gallon of gas. so the cost of running them is probably less than you'd pay from the electric company; that's with 2 TVs on all the time, plus normal usage. Electric can be run in from public poles, but it would be expensive ($25000 estimated).
The main barn is 38x90” and has a flat drive-in entrance to the loft, no beams in the way either. In the stable are 27 stanchions and an addition approximately 30x40’ with 7 straight horse stalls and 2 pens for smaller animals. Like the home, it has had French drains installed so it stays dry. It has 2 14x40’ silos. In the barn is an ice house which keeps ice through the summer.
Youngstock have been housed in a section of the machinery shed. This building is about 30x70’ and has a corn crib across the west end. There are some small buildings for typical other farm purposes. And there is a sugar house just inside the woods.
There is also a second home which has just started conversiojn from being a wood-working shop. It is 24x44’ and is planned to have 2 12x12’ bedrooms, and a single bath. Across one end is a 14x24’ shed which will function like a huge mud room.
The price we ask is just $350000. Included are all woodstoves, all appliances, 3 generators, and snow fence for the entire drive. If you want less land, a neighbor is willing to buy what yo do not want. And do not rule out short-term owner financing. The owner is selling for health reasons and wants you to know that he is anxious to make a deal. You might be stunned at the discount a serious offer may get you.
Available separately are his machinery: New Holland 55 Workmaster 4WD tractor, Ford 9N tractor, sickle bar mower, good JD 328 baler, 2 hay rakes, a tedder, drags, a tilt-bed hay wagon, Ford 3 bottom plow, 4’ bush hog.
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Available separately are his machinery: New Holland 55 Workmaster 4WD tractor, Ford 9N tractor, sickle bar mower, good JD 328 baler, 2 hay rakes, a tedder, drags, a tilt-bed hay wagon, Ford 3 bottom plow, 4’ bush hog.
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#1111 - OFF MARKET - Central Montgomery County - Cropper's Delight! We have 147 acres of outstanding soil, certified organic, and at a low elevation for a longer growing season. 107 are tillable, 3 large fields. We have an outstanding tenant who is willing to continue his tenancy there. (More land can be rented too, across the road.) The remainder (40 acres) is wooded and it is estimated that $1000 of timber is there ready to harvest, mixed pines and hardwoods.
But maybe you don't want to do crops yourself. Let me tell you more. There is 2300' of road frontage on a seasonal road – no neighbor homes can be seen from here; it has all the privacy that anyone could wish for. And the views are to die for. You look up and down and across the valley. Montgomery County's most famous natural sight, “The Noses”, are right there before you.
There are two buildings. One, called a “bunkhouse” has a 10x20' second story bunk area, with a storage room of the same size below it. Then on the side is attached a 10x30' open area under which is housed a 35' camper. A deck is off it and there is a formal firepit for those evening barbeques. The camper sleeps 10, has a bump-out, and could be purchased for an additional $4000. It has a new HW heater.
Along the drive in to the bunkhouse is a new 30x40' 4 sided machinery shed and a 220' drilled well. The well has a pump at 185' and the water's static level comes within 40' of the top.
Taxes are $3700 and the price is just $275000. You can't find quality soil with this kind of privacy and scenery anywhere else.
Taxes are $3700 and the price is just $275000. You can't find quality soil with this kind of privacy and scenery anywhere else.
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LOWER PRICE
#1122 - Western Montgomery County - In the midst of the Amish community and a short distance to the Produce Auction is a 132 acre farm with up to 105 tillable. Decent soils too, black silt loams. The land has not been used in a number of years, a shame - but the bright side is that it qualifies for organic. The remainder is abandoned pasture. Although there are trees, nothing is really wooded. There is a stream in the back, a creek in the front, and there are 1800’ of road frontage.
LOWER PRICE
#1122 - Western Montgomery County - In the midst of the Amish community and a short distance to the Produce Auction is a 132 acre farm with up to 105 tillable. Decent soils too, black silt loams. The land has not been used in a number of years, a shame - but the bright side is that it qualifies for organic. The remainder is abandoned pasture. Although there are trees, nothing is really wooded. There is a stream in the back, a creek in the front, and there are 1800’ of road frontage.
The home is an 1860 classic Brick Italianate of 2412 sq. ft and although used part-time by a single man, it is in good or better condition with a nice view across the creek valley. It is serviced by an updated 4 zone oil furnace and has a security system and a dug well. Inside, the kitchen has new cabinets and appliances. Floors are refinished wide planks. There are 8 rooms total, 3 bedrooms and 2 baths. Years ago, the home had a one BR apartment and that could be changed back if desired. the third floor is a walk-up attic and could be refinished for substantial additional living space if you didn’t mind abbreviated head room along the outside walls. The view from there is even better.
The barn has a block foundation and a Gothic arched roof. In good condition, it is 36x96’ and has 2 large pens in it now. It can be easily converted to horse, cattle or small animal stalls. There is also a fairly new 24x36’ garage. It has 3 doors with openers, and a concrete floor.
$375000 and the owner is anxious to make a deal. It is only 1 mile to town, less to school. Adjoining this, 12 acres more land with a horse barn and an occupied mobile home may soon be available. It has 8 acres of very good woods.
Larry Casler is the person who knows the most about this property. I suggest calling him directly: 315-823-2970.
$375000 and the owner is anxious to make a deal. It is only 1 mile to town, less to school. Adjoining this, 12 acres more land with a horse barn and an occupied mobile home may soon be available. It has 8 acres of very good woods.
Larry Casler is the person who knows the most about this property. I suggest calling him directly: 315-823-2970.
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#1077 - North Central Montgomery County
You need to “Open the Book” here and not judge this by its cover. We have a large home that has been VERY extensively renovated on the inside while little has been done to the outside. You will be very pleased when you see inside, guaranteed.
The land is sort of the same way. Pastures not used, so they look their worst. But go through them to the 50-60 tillable acres of land beyond, and it's a different story. That is well-kept by the tenant farmer. There are 135 acres here, in all. 50 are wooded, 25 pasture and the remainder mostly tillable in the high lime and better-drained Wassaic soils. A small stream runs along one border for a while. There are wetlands here, mostly in the woods, that may qualify for significant government payments. There are 2 developed springs and a very good drilled well for water.
#1077 - North Central Montgomery County
You need to “Open the Book” here and not judge this by its cover. We have a large home that has been VERY extensively renovated on the inside while little has been done to the outside. You will be very pleased when you see inside, guaranteed.
The land is sort of the same way. Pastures not used, so they look their worst. But go through them to the 50-60 tillable acres of land beyond, and it's a different story. That is well-kept by the tenant farmer. There are 135 acres here, in all. 50 are wooded, 25 pasture and the remainder mostly tillable in the high lime and better-drained Wassaic soils. A small stream runs along one border for a while. There are wetlands here, mostly in the woods, that may qualify for significant government payments. There are 2 developed springs and a very good drilled well for water.
The home is surrounded by large maple trees and is quite verdant. It has some very large and useable rooms. The kitchen/dining room is 14x32', with new cabinets, black walnut countertops, ceramic tile floors (and wide plank at one end). Although there is quite a bit of cabinet space (and 2 sinks!), there is also a large pantry. You fill these with food and you won't have to go to the store for months and months! The living room is 14x20' and has oak floors. There is also a downstairs bedroom and a full bath. In the back is a very large room which has historically been used for a variety of purposes. It could be converted to a one car garage. Behind it is a 10x18' woodshed.
Upstairs are 5 rooms plus a large ceramic tile-floored bath/laundry. Three of these are bedrooms (14x21', 11x14', 14x17'), 2 of which have oak floors. The others have plank floors. The master bedroom has 2 6' closets.
The home was just completely rewired and replumbed, insulated fully and had new windows installed. There is a new septic. All the old plaster was removed and new sheetrock installed. Most doors are new as well. Baths are brand new as are the kitchen cabinets. There is plenty of closet space. Except for the fine old plank floors in the original old part of the home, the majority of the floors are new too. The home is wonderfully livable as it is, but there is minor finishing work inside that needs to be done. Heat right now is by woodstoves (a new and beautiful “hi tech” wood cookstove is included just to make the deal sweeter for you – as well as warmer.
The home was just completely rewired and replumbed, insulated fully and had new windows installed. There is a new septic. All the old plaster was removed and new sheetrock installed. Most doors are new as well. Baths are brand new as are the kitchen cabinets. There is plenty of closet space. Except for the fine old plank floors in the original old part of the home, the majority of the floors are new too. The home is wonderfully livable as it is, but there is minor finishing work inside that needs to be done. Heat right now is by woodstoves (a new and beautiful “hi tech” wood cookstove is included just to make the deal sweeter for you – as well as warmer.
The former dairy is old, and tired. It needs a roof as winds have stripped one section off a while back. It is roughly 40x130' with a 26x30' “L”. Part is single story and clear span but most is post and beam, using big old hand-hewn beams. There is a milkhouse attached and a new 14x40' silo.. There is a 20x80' equipment shed, which has also housed heifers in the past, and a 22x30' storage barn.
Taxes are $5226.88, with no deductions taken, and the price was reduced to $325000.
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#1020 - Eastern Montgomery County - This Montgomery/Schenectady County farm of 112 acres has up to 60-70 tillable and is currently rented to a neighbor. $270000 for the 112 acres on the larger (north) side of the Additional land across the road (~42 acres, 25-35 tillable) can be rented or secured with a Right of First Refusal.
This barn measures 36x80' with a 20x40' wing. There are 36 modern tie stalls, a bulk tank and room for young stock in the wing. 2 smaller silos. It uses a manure push off. Tbere are 2 small concrete silos. Be aware that there is a correctable structural issue in the barn loft, one which does not show in photos.
You can drive to the Capital District in less than 1/2 hour from here, yet it is quiet and peaceful, surrounded by small farms. There is no home, but there are plenty of superior building spots.
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You can drive to the Capital District in less than 1/2 hour from here, yet it is quiet and peaceful, surrounded by small farms. There is no home, but there are plenty of superior building spots.
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