Hope you appreciate what you have. Parts of upstate NY are still beautiful, but downstate NY farms and open space (not gov owned) have all but disappeared, and the public hiking trails remind you of folks getting online to get on the subway. Trains bring them up from NYC on the weekends.
I'm fortunate to have my 50 acres in the Catskills (I paid only $300/acre in 1985). It was cheap because it is off the grid. You are not allowed to live there year-round. Land in NY is very expensive, and there are no spreads like yours. Unless it is cleared fields, we don't have endless prairie land like you do, it is pretty much all heavily wooded.
Hundred-acre horse farms down here go for millions of dollars, and the taxes are more than most ordinary folks earn in a year. It seems the more folks want to move out of NYC (often with very deep pockets) the more expensive everything gets. I remember driving through the Bronx with my father and he would say "This used to be all farms". Now you can go several counties above NYC and say the same thing. The largest remaining farms have either been purchased by the government or by not-for-profit entities.
Another problem, even though it is illegal, baiting is widespread and diminishes your hunting opportunities. I often see nice deer in Sept on the trial cams, and they all but disappear after bow season opens in Oct.
And don't get me started on all the illegals ... they don't even try to enforce the hunting and fishing regulations on them. It is a sad state of affairs!
