Whether you are an avid hunter, weekend rancher, or commercial farmer, one thing rings true to your heart, the rising cost of land.  We have been discussing this in my office for a while now.  It is getting tougher and tougher for the small time rancher, farmer or even hunter to afford the rising cost of land.   Take for instance your average price per acre right now in the brush country of south Texas being $2,000 per arce or more.  Then take just a small ranch or farm lets say 200 acres, and try and make a living or even some spare time money on this land.  You can't if you have to finance, and most people starting out have to finance.   Where does this lead us?  It leads us to more and more buyers paying cash to run their ranch or farm.  And who are these buyers with the cash?  Not ... 12/28/2007

Do any of you know a baseball player, the ones that do it for a living?  I know several, only because I played minor league baseball with them before I was released.  If you happen to know one, find out a little about them and their hobbies in the off-season.  Chances are that they might be a seasoned deer hunter, or a even an avid cattleman.  With that in mind and with the vast amount of big ranches in South Texas being broke up into smaller more manageable ranches, for the individual to run, there is a need to get the two together.  It is only natural that baseball players enjoy hunting because it is during their off-season which is right now.  With land prices tripling over the last 10 years it makes them a good investment as well.  Everything is bigger in Texas, which includes the l... 11/15/2007