There's a passion there that's easy to read in your words. I'd suggest you start hanging around your local farmer/feed supply store. Find out where the farmers gather for coffee. In my experience in almost any smaller community, there's a favored spot for that. Get to know some local farmers. Go to farmer's markets and talk to farmers. It's summertime, go find the small town fairs and hang out in the lifestock barns.

Those are some of the places to find the people that will really tell you the truths of farm life and will have the inside scoop of land coming available and so forth.