Wi-Me Farm

Broome, NY, Broome County

For Lease
Updated Aug 8, 2023

Acres Available

21

Open Tillable Acres

18

Wooded (or other) Acres

4

Infrastructure

  • black outline barn icon Barns - Equipment Storage
  • black outline electrical icon Electrical access
  • Black outline of a fence Fencing
  • Black outline of a water drop Water access
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Condition & Current Use

10 open acres with 7 in pasture. Pasture is fenced with 3-4 strands of barb wire. Corn and hay currently. Pasture was used until 2021. Conventional dairy leased the land up until this last year. 

Dairy barn holds about 50 head. Does have the head stalls in them. Had a patz barn cleaner. 600 gallon bulk tank. Pipeline intact. 

Trailers on the property that are rented to other families. Live on site, not part of the farm currently. 

 

Soil Types

VoC & VoB- Volusia channery silt loam, MhC - Mardin Channery Silt loam, and Wayland soils complex. Most of property is farmland soils' of statewide significance. See attached soil survey results.

Farm History & Past Use

Been a dairy farm for last decade or more. 

Tenure Options

Tenure Options

For Lease

Would like to do a long term lease 5+ years. $450 per month for all 20 acres and use of the barn. 

Are you willing to mentor a new or beginning farmer?

Negotiable

Do you require a farmer who qualifies for agricultural assessment?

Negotiable

Production Preferences

Livestock / Crops Description

Open to really anything so long as it maintained. Pigs are not preferred. 

Farm Infrastructure

  • black outline barn icon Barns - Equipment Storage
  • black outline electrical icon Electrical access
  • Black outline of a fence Fencing
  • Black outline of a water drop Water access

Fencing

3-4 barbed wire 

Water Access

Well for the barn. Stream runs through the bottom of the pasture. 

Barns for Equipment/Storage

Main dairy barn 50 head - electric in the barn. Milking equiment would be included. 

Additional Property Information

Is the Property Conserved

No

Current Land Zoning

Agricultural

Is the property located in a NY Agricultural District?

Yes

Can the public be on the property as a part of the farm business?

Negotiable

Related Files

wi_me_soil_worksheet.pdf

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