Getting permissions on corporate farms

[Iron Buzz]

Seems to me that this conversation has gone from a very specific one: how to obtain permission from a corporate giant, to a very general one of asking permission, period. That horse is dead. If anybody here that insists on explicit written permission has ever managed to get that from a nameless, faceless corporate farm (or other large corporate property), then I would love to hear it.

 

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[old_chase]

Correct. The USA is not like British and European fields. Our USA history is too young to make "any random field" worth hunting. Contrast to Europe, where it's possible that some farm fields have seen 3000+ yrs. of continuous cultivation. Of which 2900 of those years were hand labor. Contrast to the USA where the oldest a field could have seen continuous cultivation, is 200 to 300 yrs.

Hence in the USA, someone trying old fields just for sake-of-field-worker losses, will find themselves pretty bored after awhile. Needles in haystacks to find a long lost wheatie that a harvester lost in the 1920s. Instead, here in the USA, we have to research where some focused purposeful activities occurred. Eg.: picnic ground, stage stop, homestead, etc...

If I could add a diff perspective from my part
If the farm community

Our fields have largely remained unchanged in my area.
Whether corp or family owned the access points as well as the lanes, etc to the properties have largely remained unchanged. I've had moderate success walking the lanes and the heavy brush along them
Even where the old homes used to sit still are fairly easily found with the naked eye



"Old" coins, some buttons and such. Nothing more than historical values. But worth the effort.

 

[Honest Samuel]

Always get permission to search on corporate and family own farms.