Looking for a few good acres? Today’s the day you might get them.
The University of Georgia has 522 of them for sale in Oconee County.
Right across Georgia Highway 53 from North Oconee High School, you can buy your very own former agricultural research farm.
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The university’s College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences has been using the Plant Sciences Farm for decades. You can raise soybeans, cotton, peppers, whatever tickles your fancy. Or you can hold the land until the economy improves and you can put in a crop of McMansions.
In addition to the land, the farm has a house, an office and storage, lots of barns, sheds and a shop. There are also seven ponds and an irrigation system, according to James Dorsey, director of real estate and space management for UGA.
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Today at 2 p.m. is the deadline for submitting a bid for the tract. If they don’t get the price they want, UGA officials will just wait, Dorsey said. As of 11:30 a.m. Monday, only one bid had been submitted.
According to a state website, the agricultural college will lease the land back from the buyer for three years in order for scientists to finish any projects.
The bids will be opened today at 2 p.m. in Dorsey's office in the Hodgson Oil Building on the UGA campus.
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