My Final Attempt NOT To Sell My Itta Bena Farm Land
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There’s more than that south of there at Lula. Can’t wait until the first tornado comes through to see how that turns out.
Hope it don't take dat long. But till it does, drill. Survival of the world's poor should take precedent over cow flatulence concerns.
I know exactly where it is. I was just telling you how much land (non-farmland, undeveloped land) was going for in most parts of the south. Smaller plots, less functional than farmland….which could be much less easily cleared and graded to build residential property there.
No idea what the demand is to build out that way….how big the tracts are, if there’s any flood risk, or whatever. But I’ve seen farmland disappear in favor of subdivisions all over the place in recent years. Wouldn’t be surprised if even 1 rich guy would pay more for a single plot of, say, 5 acres in order to build a palace than what you’d be getting for the whole 37.
And it's probably more accessible. Both roads to the land (need 18 wheelers to be able to get there to drop off the panels and such)...and paths within the land (need to be able to drive a cart or something up and down the rows of panels for maintenance etc). Probably has accessibility to the grid too.
Solar development companies (and windmills) look for these things when looking for new sites:
Not in a flood plain
Flat
Plenty of sun
Close to a large power transmission line
Part of the reason the windmills in Tunica County are where they are is the big power lines that cross 61 right there.
When solar companies are doing site selection they even test out how often they will have to clean bird poop off of the panels.
They make their own roads. There were no roads there, and they had to put them in themselves.
Decades? Search for Copper Mountain Solar 1 in Boulder City, NV I've seen that one. It's about 80 acres and been active since 2010. Many of them across the country
Mississippi State Solar Farm
Golden Triangle Solar Farm
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I'm not reading those links, but I mean to be worth the dollar investment (most of it our tax dollars) and worth destroying acres of productive farmland (from my understanding it's destroyed practically forever).
From what I've read, solar panels have a life span of 25ish years. There's no way the payback will be worth it, if we (tax payers) weren't subsidizing it (and politicians getting huge kickbacks), there's no way a private company would invest in that tomfoolery.
Solar panels on a small scale are great, but don't destroy the most productive farmland in the history of the world on a mass scale.
I'll even give you the solar farm going in behind the Nissan plant, at least that is near an major population and industrial center, but there's one going in between Batesville and Clarksdale that's in the middle of BFE.
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Call me a conspiracist, but I just don’t believe anyone is actually farming the sun or the wind
I would like to personally thank DS and The Pack for the help and laughs by allowing this type of interaction. I'm donating $500 to the worthiest cause The Pack Votes For once closed but MorningStar couldn't prove citizenship so he's not getting a ballot. Thanks Dawgs.
And you get the added bonus of free bird carcass fertilizer.
I'm waiting on cataract surgery so I ask is that Jerry Rice?
Well, since every source of energy on this planet outside of nuclear and geothermal ultimately come from or came from the sun, you'd have to believe deeply in conspiracy.
But, you're a zombie, so...
I hated to sell my land in Union Co. years ago. Almost 400 acres for $750 per acre. Similar to yours, just plain old soybean and cotton farming low land. However, the Tallahatchie River did run through it. About 20 years ago. Once it's gone, it's gone.
True. But land is land. Currently 4 listings for land for sale in Itta Bena, ranging from 18 acres to 116 acres. Cheapest is $4,000 per acre, and gets up to $7,500
When I’m thinking energy, I’m thinking dams, oil, batteries, electricity, substations, and BD
I would think odds of a direct tornado strike would be low. But 70-80 mph straight line winds like the ones that got half my neighborhood new roofs a year ago could destroy a lot of windmills.
Not real sure what land is land means. There's a whole lot of it out there and it sells for wildly different prices in different places.
Rural Mississippi has no shortage of land and a big shortage of people with lots of money. Its generally going to sell for something that produces a reasonable ROI.
Asking prices are often pretty different from market values.
I did look for the properties you referenced. I think I found the $7,500/acre ask. About 50 acres, of which 30 is producing $3k a year in farm rents, or $100/acre. That asking price only works if someone has money to burn, knows something is coming or has a very specific investment in mind for the property. I doubt it sells for that price or anything close to it otherwise.
Generally speaking, Pennsylvania people aren't so bad. It's the New York state ones you gotta watch out for.
I am now....Been out in the NOLA hot sun all day.
What direction from town is your land Anon?
Nope.
Near Tupelo. New Albany is county seat. Dude named Faulkner born there. Also contains a large Toyota manufacturing plant.
Does hardwood timber increase the value? I don’t think there are too many hardwood mills left around here and I think the ones that are around aren’t very profitable. Most of the land I see cut now seems to leave the hardwood standing or what they cut down gets put in a giant pile to rot.
Across from those single family homes and a small multi unit (over 4 units so commercial) in Itta Bena RIGHT outside city limits. You prolly know who farms it. The son in law of the fellow who farmed it 40 years before he died of cancer.
Gone for 30 yrs and was thinking New Albany wasn't too far from Greenwood. Like a county over to the north, not far.
Been over 40 yrs since I lived in Itty Bitty and over a year since I was back through there. Only farmer I knew that passed from cancer lived and worked at Quito. He was a good man and a good duck hunter.
Is Larry's Fish House still open?
Had a ton fun in IB in the 70s/early 80s, great place for kids, white kids at least.
Had a ton fun in IB in the 70s/early 80s, great place for kids, white kids at least.
These are private companies building them and selling the electricity back to TVA or whomever the local utility is, they have to buy it back by law wherever they are. Makes more sense to put it out in "BFE" on this $2,000 per acre land and still farm it under the panels rather than on a city postage stamp size lot that sells for $20-$30 thousand behind Nissan doesn't it? Sure there are tax breaks for solar, but what do you call crop subsidies for that farm land? And what is "destroying the land" about the panels too? Do a search for "agrivoltaics" which is growing crops under the panels. Never mind, you don't read articles, because it may change your mind and make you admit you're wrong
We're getting a lot of California and Colorado family migrations here in Desoto County. All of them share Mississippi's conservative values and will vote accordingly. The property tax costs here in MS on an annual basis is what they were paying monthly in California.
Basically New Albany in the North area but very much like the Delta area.
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