Another Useless Article! Outlook the heart of the Flood WTF!

[Partners]

We farm only 1500 acres..but are doing as good or better than most of our large neighbors..Most of our equipment is "newer"..plus most is paid for..Its all about being "efficient"..

Media has to show the good crops so there will be a reason to keep prices low..and us as individuals are insignificant to the whole picture..

[JDGreen]

One question who actually has all this pea carry out?? The numbers are so far out on stored crop it's hilarious..

[freewheat]

Boarder, lets just say I am MUCH closer to 1200 than to 2000. And I make a living, and my wife is a stay at home mom. It is not impossible. I just take issue that guys like me are not farmers. Comes down for me to the hand I was dealt. I deal with it as best I can, while almost all the others around me rely on Dads deep pockets/land equity to make it on three, four five times the acres. I rely on me. It is all I know. I don't try hard to compete with mittfulls of old money, and long ago paid for land. 5 years ago, I was farming 440 acres with a 100 horsepower tractor. And was raising a family of four kids. Thankfully a few guys realized I was serious, and AM a farmer, and rented me and sold me some land. While my wife remained at home to raise the kids . I simply can not compete with guys who HAVE TO HAVE 10 000 acres and the new iron to go with it, and see no reason to. So I farm differently.

And I AM a farmer. My ENTIRE living comes from the farm, not from my subsidizing wife, or my dad's old land, or my grandpas old money.

Don't mean to hijack this thread, but goodness sakes, I gotta defend myself.

[Hopperbin]

Freewheat I learned like your rant. It would be like a holiday to work on some older equiptment. I would work for nothing. If I retire I will call you up.

[hobbyfrmr]

I like being the non large, organic farmer. Well....until the end of August when all the weeds are sticking out five inches taller than the crop. Then I am kind of hating it, until swathing.
It requires a different skill set, and I really don't fit in any meetings with the conventional guys. Once farmers start talking about expensive fertilizer, chemicals, machinery, I tune out.
It not that I don't like them, they are good people, but all those old stresses and anxieties climb onto me and I have to leave those conversations
Once a person grows a reasonable crop without all that lipstick, there is some general contentment about it.
To be fair, my neighbours go heavy on the inputs, they grow huge crops and live well.

[Hopperbin]

now I also want to work for hobby

[farmaholic]

Hobby, my neighbor said that I buy my crop. I suppose there may be some truth to that, but I try to sell it for more than I paid. :-)