Lakeshore Area Network for Dairy (LAND)

Worksheet for Dairy Farmers intending to Exit the business and/or

interested in Finding a Partner

Please describe your farming operation and the facilities/land base you now farm:

Please check below the item(s) which best describe what you are interested in:

____Leasing facilities/land to abeginning farmer and, if so, when? ______

____Selling facilities/land to a beginning farmer and, if so, when? ______

____Bringing in a beginning farmer into your operation and allowing this

beginning farmer to buy your operation over time

____Acting as a mentor to the beginning farmer

____Continue to operate your cropland and providing feed to the beginning farmer

____Presently have cattle you are willing to sell

____Presently have machinery you are willing to sell

____Willing to partner with abeginning farmer.

Questions about your farm:

____How many acres of cropland do you own

____How many acres of cropland do you rent

____What is the overall condition of your facilities? (Good, Average, Fair, Poor)

____Tie Stall – How many stalls? ______

____Freestall – How many stalls? ______

____Parlor – What size and kind of parlor? ______

____Number of dairy cows your facility can handle? ______

____Type of feed storage:

____bags____uprights____bunkers

Please list all major capital improvements made to your farm in last 2 years?

Please describe youngstock housing on the farm?

Please describe feed storage on the farm?

Please describe manure handling system including storage?

How many months of manure storage capacity? When was it constructed?

Is there a house available on the farm, describe?

Please further describe specifically what you are looking to lease or sell to a beginning farmer?

Please attach any other descriptions/pictures that you would like to share.

Consent to Share Information Provided:

I hereby give permission for the information I have provided to be released to inquiring beginning farmers or farmers who may be interested in forming a partnership. I further acknowledge that any group or person that releases this information is not in any way representing and/or guaranteeing the quality of any responding persons who are interested in the farm operation.

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