Shelby County IL 107.5+- Acres / Farm Farmland Income CRP Wooded Hunting / 2977A

Shelby County farm consisting of approximately 107.5+/- acres located just South of Lakewood IL.  Farm is currently enrolled in the CRP Program bringing in an annual payment of $15,475.  This property has numerous options available!  If you want to farm it, roughly 20 acres comes out of CRP in 2 years (10-2026).  Another roughly 60 acres comes out of CRP in 10-2030, giving you over 80 acres of tillable cropland making this farm 75% tillable.

If you’re a hunter, let’s just say WOW!! This property has 2 streams that come together and meet near the north property line center of the farm, another 2 streams meet in the SW corner of the farm merging down to one creek through the center of the farm.  You talk about a funnel!!  Approximately 20 acres comes out of existing CRP in 2 years; these parcels can be converted to food plots.  In 2030 the remaining CRP comes out and you could resign it up, however we would want to do it different than current.  The west side of the creek is currently in General signup where about 1/2 of that field would or could go to Continuous Practice like bottomland hardwoods.  Then take 10 acres and put it in a CP-9 Wildlife Water which will pay well also.  The balance place into Switchgrass and you just built one heck of a deer and pheasant patch!  And it will still bring in nearly $17,000 a year.

The property has great access on 2 sides and is the connection point for all the wooded corridors in the area.  Look at some of these aerial maps and you will see what I am talking about.

If your sole goal is income….take advantage of some better CRP programs as they become available and you could see a hunting lease upwards of $5,000+ a year.  The farm is capable of $22,000 a year in income.  Or, let all the CRP expire, cash rent the tillable and lease the hunting out and you're near that same figure. 

Directions to Property: From Illinois State Highway 128 South, turn West on County Highway 12 towards Lakewood, then turn South on 1300 East Road and go approximately 1.5 miles. Farm is located on the SE corner of 1300 East Road and 575 North Road.