[Mr.Rain]

Sounds like you have been busy! The offset mature rates for your corn sounds logical. Sounds like a neat place.

[Mr.Rain]

Great question and great points being made. We have been planning and “practicing” this very thing where we live. We have been collecting tools and equipment for development on a 6 acre piece WAY out in the sticks. 1-1/2 hours from civilization and the store. The rule of thumb for us is take the 4WD and a chainsaw just to get in. I mention this to help better explain partly why we are doing things the way we are. We currently live in a neighborhood and plan to keep this place as we work on the other. Perhaps a temporary shelter you can be relatively comfortable in is a good first step in my mind. A travel trailer or motor home already set up might be a great way to facilitate your stay in various spots on the property. As others have mentioned this will give you a feel for the land and help you to discern where you want and need permanent infrastructure. Check out all four seasons before breaking ground on something permanent. Temporary shelter and equipment doesn’t have to be new of course. We have had our property for a couple years now and I like to go up there on various occasions in various weather conditions to see where the sun, wind water flow in the seasonal stream reacts to high rain events. We purchased a foldable building that makes a 20′ x 20′ space for a temporary building either to be permanent or make a guest house, storage or workshop down the road. This building is the same size as a 20′ shipping container and can be lifted off a trailer via pick points on the top of the frame or moved with a forklift. Very mobile. We have picked up a couple shipping containers which make durable storage and are also mobile. For years now we have been collecting equipment such as a dump truck, excavator, dozer, backhoe, box truck which I set up as a mobile shop, equipment trailers, fuel storage and next week a telehandler in order to do most of the work ourselves and make for flexibility. Tomorrow we have 40 deep cycle batteries swapped out of a communications tower. Been thinking about water collection so shopped around and picked up a 3000 gallon milk tank from a dairy going out of business. Trailers and equipment come in handy for you to acquire deals and go and get them. Our thought is tangible assets will help with independence, bartering and with the way of the dollar using value daily having the “stuff” is better than money in the bank. Anyway, perhaps a little different perspective but things to ponder along with the other comments. Hope this augments the other comments and helps you to, at a minimum, consider these things or who might be around to help or hire.