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Re: What's a guy supposed to do!


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Posted by dad's88 on March 10, 2007 at 01:03:29 from (64.12.116.141):

In Reply to: What's a guy supposed to do! posted by BOBM25 on March 09, 2007 at 09:15:09:

I assume you read all of the posts on here, some real good advice by folks who have walked that road. I do really feel for you, timing is everything. In another era things would be different. I started farming in 1983, went through a drought, 4 years of farm crisis, another drought,etc. Would have liked to have been 20 years older but THIS was my time and I couldn't change it. Guys who started 10 years later fared much better but that's how it is. My family never farmed real big so those whos familys were bigger operators had a better base to work with than I did. Some things you have no control over. You will never be able to go head to head with a guy that owns a couple thousand acres on a rented piece of ground. Your best bet is to try to find an older farmer who has no one that wants to take over. See if you can go to work for him, maybe someday he will rent it to you cheaper than the neighbor. If you have some large operators in your area see if you can hire on with them, at least you will be doing what you love. Maybe there will come a day when you could become a partner on some level. The sad fact is it's just not going to happen over night. The days of starting with nothing and buying a good crop farm are behind us. No way you could cash flow the 7000+ acre dirt around here. You are going to have to want it real bad and be willing to do some of the things suggested on these posts or anything else you can think of yourself. Be thoughtful in all that you do.


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