What do I need to know about North Eastern AZ

[WOODY2]

I think you've made my point vis-a-vis the Corriente part, that being said they will never look good, it just the breed. FYI I've raised Charolais,Simmental and Herefords.

[elx144]

I think you've made my point vis-a-vis the Corriente part, that being said they will never look good, it just the breed. FYI I've raised Charolais,Simmental and Herefords.

Gotta let stock graze an area then keep them off it until it grows back. They have to be moved once or twice a day. But there has to be good grass there to begin with, with deep roots and some microbial activity in the soil.

[colossians323]

Gotta let stock graze an area then keep them off it until it grows back. They have to be moved once or twice a day. But there has to be good grass there to begin with, with deep roots and some microbial activity in the soil.

That's what we do with our stock in Idaho, but we get to water the pasture 24/7 so we regenerate cow food on the land fast. Spring water is awesome!

[Rotnguns]

We're coming from Reno where we had some good snow, even as late as May. The land we're looking at is at a lower elevation though. Between Show Low and Winslow, but not too far into the desert. We want to spend the winter at the Show Low elevation so we can get used to the area. I'm looking at maybe a foot of snow in the winter in the northern area and some good monsoons that fill the washes during monsoon season. Mid 80 degree summers is what I'm after.

I'll be collecting as much rain and snow runnoff as I can.

From the Show Low Snow Management website, looks like an average of 40 inches of snow a year. Lots of good information here, directly from the City of Show Low:

https://www.showlowaz.gov/page/snow-management

[elx144]

That's what we do with our stock in Idaho, but we get to water the pasture 24/7 so we regenerate cow food on the land fast. Spring water is awesome!

I don't have water rights so I can only hope for rain. With well water the state will let me grow crops on less than 2 acres but they don't want us watering feed for livestock.

The snow this year was really light compared to 2023-24. We got maybe 2 days of snow that stuck. I'm hoping monsoon season makes up for it.

[amd64]

We did it. Got 40 acres with a well already on it. My wife and two boys have spent the past few years at an RV park getting to know people and figuring out the good areas. A piece of land came up for sale, we called the agent and she already had an offer but we put in ours anyway. Ours was less than asking, but a few days later she came back and said the other buyer backed out and our offer was accepted.

It was on me to get the well tested and the seller paid to have the septic system tested. There's no power so I got a 220V generator and wired it up to the 3 wire controller that was already there. It took about 5 minutes but water came out. I had to dig up a rusty pipe that was making the water red, but once that was fixed the water tested good. The septic guy dumped a bunch of water into the system and it held overnight, then he marked the tank and leach field.

We closed last week, it's ours.

My friend is giving us a bunch of goats and my wife's friend sold us a Great Pyrenees puppy. We'll probably get about 200 chickens for meat and eggs. There's pens already in place for livestock. I figure we saved about $60k on the well and septic and another $10k on fencing. I can get a complete 20KW solar system for $10K, a 2,500 gallon water tank for $1/gallon, and we're good to go. The family selling the puppies have a similar setup and are living completely off grid, but prices on solar equipment have come down quite a bit since they got theirs.

The best part is, we're not that far out of town. So my boys can still play sports and my wife can get what she needs without having to drive for an hour. There's even a gym less than 10 minutes from our land.

Cool. What general area ? I have a place in NE AZ now.

[elx144]

Cool. What general area ? I have a place in NE AZ now.

Just outside of Snowflake but we've been staying in Springerville. We should be living full time at the property in the next couple weeks.