I will soon be making settlement on my new/old house. The rear of the property is about 14 acres which was leased to a local farmer. Last year there was corn on it, but we had a terrible drought here and it doesn't look like it was ever harvested (all stalks standing, ears still on the plants). I had originally thought that the farmer intended to plow this crop under, but now that I've read a bit I would think if that was the plan he would have done so last fall, but there are also other fields in the neighborhood that were left the same way. Unfortunately the seller and her realtor are not incredibly helpful at this point (I bargained a lot harder than they expected) so I'm looking for some advice on what to do. Am I jumping the gun - is it still too soon here in eastern PA to be working fields? Or has the farmer abandoned these fields for some reason?
Any thoughts?
Gregg