Can i mow agricultural land

It will end up like every other bit of land that was once farm land and has now been taken over by horses. Eaten bare, flattened and clumps of nettles bordered by scruffy white tape. Spotted my personal gripe? Quite what the LA could do about it I am not sure but there have been instances of this being so. What plans do you have for keeping the horse elsewhere as well? That grass will need time to recover. On the plus side most of our grazing land is from people who let people use it for horses but got fed up of the mess and the damage they cause to the land.

If you will be bringing food for the horse on site ie buying in hay then you need change of use. Temporary grazing of the grass is fine and best combined with something like a couple of sheep.

Stabling would need to be moveable so on sleds. It would be a very good idea to find someone with a couple of sheep or buy some lambs down at market every year and graze them over the summer with the horses and then eat them in the winter.

Sheep and horses compliment each other, something to do with the worms IIRC. You would be best employing a system to look after the ground better though either with alternative grazing or a bit more land so you can have 2 or 3 areas of decent size not like the example above were the plots each horse is being kept in is tiny.

Thanks for all of the info. Anything else, you need planning. You also need to be aware of your responsibilities, which will include removing travellers and cleaning up fly tipping.

And that an empty field will deteriorate if you do not maintain it So on that try and get one which does not back on to sources of chukaway crud eg gardens and for which you have a practical holding strategy eg rent bits to hobby farmers or hippies or a husky racer, or to a bloke with 4 cows to deter trespassers and a friend in a slaughterhouse, who gives you half a carcass per year. For optimising your opportunity, take a look at barriers to future development and which ones you can rule out.

Eg is it in the Community Boundary, has it been in the Shlaa etc. Look up Shlaa. Be aware of other and that may go first. My opinion would be not to be Mr Inbetween.. Big developers will not piddle about with say sites for 17 houses without a good reason. If you find yourself going for planning permission, then over a certain area they charge you by area to process tha Application, and it adds up quickly.

To apply for 17 houses, should you take that option, will cost approx not much less than 17x the fees to apply for one house. Do not turn it into a nature reserve. Definitely no ponds. And years from when you feel you are ready for an application chuck some pigs on it, they will destroy everything.

As so often Russell griffiths is right - so, play it long, and then pop a porker on it. You could rent the land out to another local farmer while you wait.

It happens all the time around here. Farmers rent land to grow potatoes water source needed nearby asparagus growing or pig production, anything really. The advantage is that you need to do nothing except collect the rent. Not sure about the farmer selling your land but around here they like farmland to stay as farmland and if offers are similar or even if they are not they will sell to the buyer who is going to farm it.

Most of what I've found from my research suggests that allotments do count as agricultural land use, and would not require permission for change of use. Small areas of general woodland can also be planted on agricultural land, though there is a cap on the size of area beyond which it becomes forestry and requires change of use.

In fact the first thing that comes up with a google search of 'can I plant trees on agricultural land' is a Farmers Weekly article from Aug extolling the benefits of doing just that. You can't use an allotment as an extension of a garden so lawns or ornamental flower beds that would count as leisure use are out, but that's not what I'd want to do anyway.

Healthier than normal? It appears that soybeans were the last crop Any advice would be much appreciated! Since it is now under cultivation, I would do nothing with it until the house is constructed and finished. Any thing you do now will be totally destroyed during the construction process. Remember, there will be equipment coming in to dig the foundations, the leach bed, the sewer lines, and water lines, etc.

There will be big trucks delivering supplies for the contractor, and cement for the foundation and drive way. When I was in this situation, I worked the fringes, Clean up the tree row between the fields, and if there are trees you want to save make sure they are will marked so the machinery will not be going over the root system. Also you can start trimming those trees. If you are really desperate for something to do on your new house you could do some planting on the edges of the yard away from any possible construction activities.

Typically soybean fields are plowed before the soybeans are planted. There really should be no stumps or roots of any kind. Your most likely problem will be small rocks that needs to be gathered up. At this point theres not a lot you can do until late in the summer around August. That's when you'll want to spray everything down with Round Up, wait a couple weeks and then spray anything that's green. After that you can have someone with a box scrape level everything out to get it ready for seed.

In the meantime it would be wise to have a few soil samples tested to see if it needs lime or fertilizer to get the soil ready for the fall seeding. Getting started on that now is a good idea so you have a head start on it. How do I make this deck charming and up to code on a limited budget? How often do you vacuum? For a 2. We don't actually own the property until after the house is built and we settle.

Not the most ideal situation, but it worked out well for us as first time homebuyers- we only have one settlement directly into a 30 year fixed. But that means technically I can't do anything to the property until we move in- likely early summer. So this seems to go along what most of you have suggested. I'm forced to be patient! Ha ha.

ForsheeMS - That is good to know about the soybeans- at least I don't have to worry about digging up roots! I will speak with the builder about getting a soil sample once everything starts to warm up. As far as leveling the lot, with so many farms around I'm sure I can find someone to help :. I love the idea of creating some sort of naturalized area. We were planning on starting a wildflower section to attract the birds and bees, so maybe instead of starting small I'll do an entire side of the yard or something.

I have to abide by the covenant restrictions, but hopefully I have a green enough thumb to make it blend in :. While it depends on the builder and your commitment to the house, I doubt if he would object if you went out to the lot and trimmed and did other things.

I would not sink a lot of money into the lot until, it was MINE, will mine and the bank. Is there an old fence row in buried in the wooded area. Is there old barb wire fencing that has to be removed. Is there the remains of an old structure. I am sure the builder would not object if you cleaned these things up and hauled them away.

The old building may provide some interesting finds. One of the things you can do is to walk the lot to learn all of the characteristic. Where are the high spots, where are the wet areas.

Where are the beans growing the best, etc. These are things you will have to know when you start deciding your landscape. While you can do some of this before the beans area harvested it would be easier to see these things afterward. One of the large cost that we did not anticipate, in a similar situation, was the minor medical bills.

A thorn deep in the figure joint that took a doctor's assistance to healed, Significant case of poison ivy. I almost for got the significant bee stings when I did not realize that I was standing on an underground nest when I was doing something.

I agree with most of what has been said. However, RoundUp will not work against any of the remaining soybean plants. Unless your previous owner was stuck in the stone age, all the soybean seed sold now is RoundUp-Ready. That means you can spray RU on it all day long and nothing will happen. Does your builder have anything in the contract where he has to prepare the surrounding land for a garden? If so then you don't have to worry about anything.

If not, then The only tool necessary is a box blade on the back of a real tractor. You will definitely be able to find someone with that rig. It will take him about 2 hours to run your entire property unless you have lots of obstacles like trees, buried electrical or piping.

Almost all of them will do that to some extent or other. Residents and property owners are legally required to mow the nature strip s next to their land, and ensure the grass, weeds and scrub do not grow to more than 30cm high. Note: Residents must not plant anything on the nature strip except grass and it is illegal to remove or prune any Council-planted trees on your nature strip. See Maintenance of trees in nature strips and parks.

Fire authorities recommend keeping the grass shorter than 10cm to minimise the chance of fire passing from the road onto your property. If you own vacant land in a residential area you must ensure the grass, weeds and scrub do not grow to more than 30cm high.