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Per/Day Pasture Rent?

OldDog/NewTricks

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I'm Posting this for a Friend in Washington State...

As Per Her Note:
I sent him a letter last October telling him to have his animals off my fields by Dec 31 as I was terminating our lease agreement effective the end of the year. New Year's day, his wife called and asked for another month because for various reasons (and there are always many reasons why Terry doesn't do what he says he'll do) he had hadn't time to get the fencing up, etc. I told her no later than Jan 31. It's now the end of March and I still have cattle in the fields. I want to grow grass hay,(for my Horses) and time's a wasting. I'll be sending him another letter this week invoicing him again for last year's payment and rent for the first quarter of this year. I'm also telling him that the rental rate just went up to $200/quarter. Maybe that will motivate him. Or maybe I'll take a calf a month. What's the going price on beef cattle this spring?

$200 per Quarter is to cheep!
What is the going (per head)(per month) pasture Rate out side Calif.?
It's hard to "Help" from here
I know I could LOCK ALL the Gates and Impound the cattle @ ($2. per Head/per day) Here - with a warning Letter
 
I know that the pasture rent for my horses is $40/day/head and summer grass is anywhere from $25/head/day to $45/head/day for cattle around here...really depends on the grass. Hope this helps!
 
highlonesome said:
I know that the pasture rent for my horses is $40/day/head and summer grass is anywhere from $25/head/day to $45/head/day for cattle around here...really depends on the grass. Hope this helps!

You pay $40 a day to keep your horse? :shock:
 
for 25-45$ per head per day I will rent you all the grass you want. I am guessing you mean 25-45 per head per month. Not sure on the laws there but here you have to send a certified letter in septeber to terminate the next years lease.
 
OldDog I would tell your friend to call the Sheriff, They also have rights, First they need to be paid for the pasture for last year if I understand this correctly, If it was me I would call a trucker and send them to a sale barn and sold in their name with them paying the trucking and see if the Sheriff could have my pasture rent held from the check and have him hold till this was settled. I don't like to be mean but we all have to pay our own bills, the folks that rent the pasture have biil also. 101
 
North of the 49th $1500/quarter for the year is what we pay, and get year round use of it. Most places you pay $25-$30/head/month for the grazing season.

As for seizing stock or selling it, contact the sheriff or brand inspector first. Here we have the Animal Keepers Act which us brand inspectors have to enforce. In a case like this we may seize the animals, then give the owner 14 days to get his debt paid to the land owner. If he/she cannot satisfy those terms in 14 days, the animals get sold, debts are paid out of the proceeds, and remaining monies go to the owner of the livestock.

In some rare occassion where an animal owner is a repeat offender of allowing their stock to trespass on neighbours land, they may be banned from owning livestock for a spell, if not for life depending on the circumstances.
 

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