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20 dollars an acre here for green timber (duck hunting). numerous rice fields are also leased on an annual/season basis. i've gotten 5k for an 88 acre field for several years now.

seems to me the lease costs vary dependent upon game hunted. chicago/new york lawyers love their duck hunting. i know a couple land owners who lease some of their woods for deer hunters, and they make far less on the deer ground than they do for rice fields.

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I don't see how you guys do it. If I had to pay close to a 1,000 for a hunting lease I would just rather buy a black Angus steer and have it processed. I hunt on public land, yes more competition but saves money, and most people there don't hunt small game. I may be priced out of hunting altogether, I guess I will just do more fishing. that being said I don't begrudge the land owners charging fees, they have the right to make a profit off their land.

It's gotten up to around $6.50/acre here in North La and seems to jump .25-.50 about every 3 years. Some timber COs are starting to look at it as profit instead of tax coverage as our timber Co lands have doubled in the last few years, yet taxes havent made near the increase.

I'm in two leases now, but I'm also lucky enough to have a good bit of family land in several areas. I'll probably keep paying the lease dues until they hit $8/acre, then it's back to family lands and my personal land. The way I look at it is I can pay just a bit more than the leases and go to a different state and see more and bigger bucks in just a few days than I'll see here in years of paying leases. It would be far cheaper to just pay for hunts as far as trophies are concerned, I can fill the freezer with does killed on my own place when it comes down to it.

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I dunno. I'd guess to take your monthly payments for the land being leased and multiply it by 12. Add in reasonable cost of repairs/upgrades/maintanance (is it the property itself or the land behind it?). Multiply the subtotal by 1.1 and you have your yearly lease rate, which covers a monthly bank payment and a 10% profit to you.