New York | Johnstown | 277 Farm Land

#1158. Eastern Montgomery County. This large farm used to milk over 200 cows but now raises heifers (150 of them) and sells hay. Everything is there to milk again and is “ready to go” or you could do beef as well as continue with the heifers and hay. The 83 year old owner says he’s finally ready to slow down and retire.

There are 277 acres and a good 160 or more are cropped with another 40 used as pasture. I estimate 35 more in woods + a small bit of wasteland. Good sized fields and nothing steep, in a good state of cultivation. And there is nearly 2.4 miles of road frontage in a growing area. The land lies in several parcels and is mostly contiguous, giving a new owner options for instant subdivision if that’s what they want to do.. (What isn’t contagious is real close.)

There are 2 good homes. One is a 2450 ft2 home with new hardwood floors, 3 bedrooms and a single bath, oil hot water heat, currently rented to good tenants at $750/month. The owner’s home is larger,; 3200ft2 and was extensively remodeled some years ago. Wall to wall carpeting throughout, vinyl siding, everything nice. There is a large mud room/laundry and a utility room, an open concert dining/kitchen/living room plus a larger second living room downstairs, along with a full bath. Another full bath and 4 bedrooms are upstairs. Heat is oil hot air. The homes are serviced by a 200’ drilled well and there are also dug wells and a paved circular drive. An in-ground pool has not been used recently. There is a 3 car garage, an oversize one car garage and a storage building plus a 26×72’ pole barn for machinery, all on this side of the road.

Across the road are more buildings, a 104×104’ Penn State style freestall with 150 stalls, a 54×74’ pole barn for hay and machinery, a 3 bay commodity shed and the old barn complex (in good condition). It has 36 stalls, head to head, and in a newer wing is housed a holding area and a double 8 milking parlour with ATO’s, CIP, meters for SCC and milk weights. The bulk tanks holds 3000 gallons. There is also a 30×80’ loafing shed. There are 2 24×70 silos and a 60×150’ bunker silo for wet feed storage.

The price is about what the Town feels it is worth, $799000. Offers? Taxes are $17000 but he gets refunded about half (school taxes).

Available at private treaty are the feed and the heifers as well as a super and very long line of machinery,
10 tractors 5 skid steers.. well, here’s the list. It’s impressive. JS 7850 (w/4wd & cab), JD 7410 (w/4wd, cab & 740 loader), NH T515 (w/4wd & cab), JD 7520 (w/4wd & cab), JD 7210 (w/cab), CIH 110 (w/4wd, cab & 740 loader),JD 7520 (w/4wd & cab), JD 6420 (w/4wd, cab & bale spear), Same Minitaurus, 2 CIH skid steers,Case 1825 skid steer, Gehl skid steer, NH 125 skid steer, NH 7560 discbine, NH HT154 double pinwheel rake, JD 438 small square baler, NH BR706 big round baler, JS solid drought elevator, JD Tedder, 11 metal hay wagons (nearly all JD) + 2 wooden hay wagons, JD 6750 SP 4 row chopper & corn head, MillerPro 1060 blower,, 2 MIlerPro SU wagons + one each of Gehl and H&S, 5 a& 6 bottom Kverneland plows, 2 double- folding discs, IH double-folding cultipacker, JD 6 row planter, JD 18 hole seeder, MillerPro sprayer, Kuhn/Knight slinger style manure spreader, generator, JD 6620 6 row combine, Kilbros gravity8 box, 2 Ford silage dump trucks, tandem axle and 3ph fertilizer spreaders, MillerPro 1350 rake, Kverneland round bale wrapper, Knight Reel Augie mixer, BaleMax REM3600A, Kuhn 5144 mixer, JD & Creekbank round bale wagons, pasture feeder wagon, TubeLine round bale wrapper, 2 covered dump wagons,UT dump wagon, Kubota diesel off-rad utility machine, JD Gator. And I might have missed some of them….