From an agricultural standpoint, which land in your county is the most valuable?

Question

acre for acre, which land in your local area is the most valuable (agriculturally speaking)? what is on that parcel that makes it so valuable?

Answer 1

The land adjacent to a growing large town.  The developers will buy the farm land and divide it into subdivisions.

Answer 2

The most valuable land for agriculture in my area (Sydney) has houses, factories and office buildings built upon it. It is valuable agriculturally because it is rich aluvial soil in a river basin... restrained by the ocean to the east and by sandstone mountain ranges to the North, South and West. It is known as the Sydney Basin.

Answer 3

This may suprise you but raising chickens is one of the most

profitable ag enterprises in terms of return per equity invested.

Answer 4

Here, on Cape Cod, the most productive agro business would be cranberry fruits from cranberry bogs, a wetland area (fresh water) just before the brackish areas on the way to the ocean. These areas are in essence, flat lands frequently the result of lands created or changed from receding ice masses of the last ice age. Here on Cape Cod especially, and in quite a number of areas in the Massachusetts and the north east, receding glaciers melt water and associated soil/ sand/ rock material formed deposits carved with the runoff (the whole of the Cape was formed this way). These rivers and streams cut threw the flat newly formed land and a number of ponds and lakes of all sizes where left. They eutrified, filling with mud and muck, plants over plants, especially as many were in a flux state due to ocean tides as well, coming and going, slowing and speeding the water flow. Wet land plants took over these spots, to make this long story shorter ( I can talk about it all day) and one of those was the native Crane berry (cranberry). It has been a source of food since used by the Native Tribes, the coming European masses, and was eventually cultivated. Story goes that a Sea Captain found, at his home away from the sea, that his cranberries did best when partly covered by the blowing of sand from the sand dunes adjacent to his crop. The rest is history. The cranberry; Jewel of Cape Cod.

Answer 5

The land in my area that is the most valuable is the land that I own and make a living from.  What is on that parcel that makes it so valuable? My family.

Answer 6

In our desert area the most valuable land is the lower land with the richer soil.  On the mesa there are citrus orchards, but they are giving way to development.  In the valley the crops are rotated - lettuce in the winter, milo, wheat, cotton, or melons in the summer.  The acres in agriculture are shrinking here, but the winter lettuce and other crops keep our county at the top of the ag heap statewide, and for some crops, nationwide.

Answer 7

Low lying, flat,  black and  well drained soil is generally the best.  A good outlet for water also factors in the how valuable it is.  Square tracts with no waterways make for even more valuable.  If the land borders or has its own water source such as a lake or river is ungodly valuable.  Acres that are in large tracts are nice too.

Answer 8

lake front to i-90 in north east that is where the grapes are -- market price $150-$2500 a ton

Answer 9

Agriculturally speaking, in my country, Argentina, the best land is in between the towns/cities of Salto, Rojas, Colón, Venado Tuerto, etc.

It is flat to gently rolling black soil (around 3%of OM), well drained, with a perfect balance of texture (mostly loam) and a precipitation average of 40 to 50 inches of rain per year.

Major crops are soybeans and corn with some wheat/soybeans or barley/soybean double cropping among the rotation.

Most of the land is under zero till system and there is not irrigation required except for seed production.

Major international companies are settled in this area (Monsanto, Pioneer, Cargill, Syngenta, Golden Harvest, Advanta, etc) and they produce seeds for local and international customers.

Usual yields are:

150 to 230 bu/acre of corn.

45 to 80 bu/acre of soybeans.

50 to 90 bu/acre of wheat.