If you've priced land lately, priced equipment lately, and gone to a bank to try to get money lately, you'd know why 18-35 year olds have no hope of getting started unless they marry it or inherit it.
Oh rent the land? Buy used equipment?
Any rentable land has been snapped up by the big operations under long-term leases, or bought outright. A guy trying to start out now can't even get a place to work on his own.
The small used equipment out there now is the SAME EXACT stuff my Dad started out with in the mid-70's. Except now it has 35 years of hard use on it, is worn out, and you can't get parts.
What was different 35 years ago? 35 years ago, a guy with nothing could get a loan and buy a barn full of 5-10 year old equipment pretty reasonable. Try doing that today.
Oh, have all the work custom done? What's the point then? You're not a farmer, you're a bookkeeper.
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Today's Featured Article - A City Guy's First Tractor - by Fred Hambrecht. After living in apartments in Atlanta for more years than I care to remember, the wife and I decided to move to the country. Humming "Green Acres is the place for me..." we purchased a 29 acre tract about 60 miles south of Atlanta. Next came the house, I could talk about that ordeal for another two weeks... But, I want to talk about my tractor! We didn't even own a lawnmower, and all of a sudden we had enough grass to feed all the starving children of the bovine world. Naturally, I talked
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