It's frustrating. Not that I'm the "next generation" but am up against the same challenge.
Land is just too expensive to make it worthwhile - ESPECIALLY if you're new to it. Around here, if you're not planting houses, you're not making money.
I've been wanting to get into farming forever, would love to get out of the high tech world, do something I actually have a love for - I HATE what I do now - been putting money away for quite a while (of course got wiped out in the stock market - twice - but that's another story)
The sad reality is that farming is risky business even if you KNOW what you're doing.
I'm just reluctantly coming to the conclusion that, unless you inherit your land - OR you're already wealthy enough to not care about making a profit - you're pretty much left out of the game.
Nobody's leaving me any land, so my only option is to get rich and then farm for fun. With the economy in the toilet - that long shot got a whole lot further away! Right now I'm just happy to keep the kids fed.
There will always be people brought up in the farming world that'll figure out a way to stay in it, but for "outsiders" like me to get in - very tough to break into it. Having the added responsibility of kids makes it almost impossible.
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Today's Featured Article - An Old-Time Tractor Demonstration - by Kim Pratt. Sam was born in rural Kansas in 1926. His dad was a hard-working farmer and the children worked hard everyday to help ends meet. In the rural area he grew up in, the highlight of the week was Saturday when many people took a break from their work to go to town. It was on one such Saturday in the early 1940's when Sam was 16 years old that he ended up in Dennison, Kansas to watch a demonstration of a new tractor being put on by a local dealer. It was an Allis-Chalmers tractor dealership,
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