I realize many people hunt on actual farms, so it would make sense to say you are hunting on a farm, but now you hear every Tom, ****, and Harry who have a 5 acre block of timber calling it their farm. Is that just the new terminology for hunting land and I"m late to the party?
LOL!!!! Just like the words funnel, corridors, pinch points, bottlenecks, saddles, blah blah blah, it's sexy to say farm man.... all these words really... some people have to be "that guy"
We call our property the farm. I guess primarily because it is the easiest thing to say. Also by definition ha...farm-an area of land and its buildings used for growing crops and or rearing animals....We plant ag/food plots for the wildlife/ to harvest/ improve habitat on our 300 acres so in some ways I guess many could consider their places farms even if not meant in the typical sense.
A farm is a sustainable plot of land for raising crops and HARVESTING crops and/or animals for profit. A food plot does not count..however, if you harvest a deer, well then.....by all means! lol who cares what you call it... have fun on it
Per Wikipedia- So most properties could probably fall under the hobby farm catigory. in the end it really doesn't matter what you call a property.
Funny you ask about this. I hunt a true farm (mandarine orchard) and have hunted other private land used for raising cattle and referred to that land as a ranch, not a farm. I think it just has to do with the area you are from and terms you hear other people or hunters use. Some people call soda "pop" and some call it "soda".
Here in Ms alot of the private properties have sections of pines for commercial growth/sale as well. Yep, we do the same everything is a coke. ha
We refer to it as the home farm because it has been farmed for agriculture for over 100 years. This is in Iowa. Long before deer were abundant. My dad talks about having to get a lottery tag as a resident when he was younger for deer tag. Turkeys weren’t around either. Now they are everywhere. Maybe this doesn’t pertain to what your talking about? Farms are the best food plots. Sent from my iPhone using Bowhunting.com Forums
I call my 23.5 acre property in Ohio a “Ranch". I had a salesman that called on me at work that was buying a ranch in Florida. He was buying this ranch and building a house and barn before he retired with plans to become a Rancher. He bought his ranch and called it his “Ranch". When I found out his ranch was only 10 acre I started calling my 23.5 acre a ranch. If a ranch is only 10 acre in Florida, 23.5 acre in Ohio is a huge ranch.
Do you feel the same way about people calling their treestand/stand a "set"? I don't like the whole "farm" thing either unless it's an actual farm. I have a 10 acre Norway spruce tree "farm" on my property but the thought of referring to the land I hunt as a farm has never crossed my mind.
I always felt weird about calling our family “farm” a farm. We took my two yr old daughter there a few weeks ago and she was very confused when we told her we were going to the farm but there wasnt going to be any animals there. Sometimes I just call it the “land”. I think I’ll go back to calling it that so I quit confusing the children Sent from my iPhone using Bowhunting.com Forums
No, but now that you mention it, it doesnt make any sense. On tv at least i know they will hang two stands. One for the hunter and one for camera guy. Maybe thats what they mean by a set. Like a set of stands.
I have a good friend who's an outfitter. Most of his leases are referred to as tracts, but those tracts that were formerly croplands he call farms. I've hunted the Francis Marion National Forest (SC) many times. The folks who've known that place for decades refer to many areas under by what they used to be used for. For instance, "the old rice field" is a wonderful place to deer and hog hunt but it looks like a big block of woods now, full of hardwoods, pines, and palm stands. No rice in sight. LOL.
