Interesting thread. Just so I understand, in some areas you can get government contracts (WHIP program maybe?) to pay you to grow crops and leave standing? Or you can get local farmers to lease the fields from you to grow their crops and you get a percentage of the sale of them?

I purchased a little over 40 acres in southern Colorado last year. I am so happy that I did. We actually havested 2 cows and a bull near my property this year. It's a 9,000 feet with timber and canyons so no chance for agriculture there but that's ok.

Good luck finding some land to call your own . . . Rob