#244 - Nobody Wanted These Farms, He Thinks You Should Buy One: Here's Why with Skip Sligh

Welcome to the land podcast, a platform for people looking to educate themselves in the world of land ownership, land investing, staying up to date with current land trends in the Midwest, and hearing from industry experts and professionals. On today's episode, we are back in the studio with Skip Sligh. We discuss: - Skip explains why owning more acres still leaves plenty of work to grow and hold mature bucks. - Jake asks what softer prices and higher borrowing costs mean for Midwest recreational land buyers. - Skip explains why he looks at southeast Iowa farms other buyers passed over after EHD. - Skip describes improving food plots and timber while a local deer herd recovers. - Skip recalls losing access to his uncle’s place and saving for a down payment as a kid. - Skip explains how he buys farms he can improve and rolls the proceeds into the next property. - Skip tells Jake why he sold his paid-off truck to cover an early farm payment. - Skip explains why some landowners put up high fences when deer keep getting shot next door. - Skip uses interior food plots, CRP browse and timber work to give deer more reasons to stay. - Skip explains why he started speaking up about hunting regulations and access for younger hunters. And so much more! Chapters: 0:00 Why Skip looks at farms hit by EHD 1:08 Skip’s family buck and what acreage buys you 9:39 What Jake and Skip are seeing in the land market 12:20 Buying after an EHD die-off 20:03 Does the buyer have the edge? 28:08 How Skip got started buying farms 33:09 Turning farm improvements into the next purchase 50:45 Selling his truck to make the farm payment 54:34 How do you keep more bucks alive through the season? 59:04 Why some landowners put up high fences 1:09:52 Interior food plots and keeping deer on the farm 1:22:50 Why Skip speaks up about hunting regulations Thanks again for all of the support from our partners—none of this would've been possible without them! - Buck Land Funding: https://www.firstbankers.com/bucklandfunding -Hawke Optics | Use Code WHTL for 15% off: https://bit.ly/hawkeoptics _ -OnX: https://bit.ly/onX_Hunt -Painted Arrow: bit.ly/PaintedArrow - Latitude Outdoors: https://www.latitudeoutdoors.com/ - Use code 'HOFER' to save 10% off at www.theprairiefarm.com - Massive potential tax savings: ASMLABS.Net