fun farming when the occational time the kids come along

[JDGreen]

Actually it's called feeding them with a silver spoon . Just kidding HFL .. Not sure how else they would get started now days anyways. My boys are 11 and 16.. The eldest can't get enough of the fun.. Gonna get expensive in a few more years too no doubt .. Ended up with a new grain cart this year so the oldest could be on the field more and enjoy the harvest with old dad and his granddad.. There is something about knowing the business will go on. Not sure what it is but it seems to keep my drive alive. Would rather see my kids loving what they do than worrying about big city careers anyway. Safe harvesting to all still in the field.

[Klause]

This is part of what I was alluding to in my earlier post

[errolanderson]

Bad close on Friday . . . .

Is the next Black Monday, Oct 13th, 2014?

[samhill]

I understand that increasing the money supply and keeping interest rates way below the rate of inflation really hurts people who save and also those on fixed incomes. However, if there is 4 billion more people than 30 years ago, there needs to be more paper money, or there isn't enough to go around.
Must be an equilibrium somewhere.

[errolanderson]

samhill . . . if you are talking governments printing money globally to get out of this problem, ain't gonna work.

This could potentially trigger a currency war, like that of the 1930's. That the outcome wasn't so great.

this market is the 'ghost of inflation's past' . . . .

[fjlip]

Ours are 23 and 26, NOT farmer types like I was. Little interest, content with wage earning. They both helped with harvest but driving iron is the easy part. I disagree on the job stress, farming IMO is the max stress. As the years add up it's getting less appealing. My cousins, similar ages, that never farmed, are financially better off and all retired. Have many nieces and nephews with careers doing way better than I did at their ages. As third gen, quite certain I will be the last on this land, and why should I care, we all leave the same way. Legacy to what end?
Great to hear some young are interested, we need buyers/renters for the huge land transfer in coming years. Younger boomers are retiring all around me.

[ado089]

The EU will be forced to undertake some sort of major QE. It stands to reason a good place to park capital is in one of the beat up European equity markets. They should see the same stock market inflation the US had with QE.

[ColevilleH2S]

Ado, the issue I see with that is they'd have to convert that capital to € to make the investment. If the EU prints like mad, come cashout time your investment would be converted out of € which are now worth less. Or so the theory goes.

[farmaholic]

Like Chermeny, where everyting is goot yaw?

[riders2010]

Isn t that the truth fjlip, I look at some people I know definitely not the brightest but found jobs and now not the manager but living comfortably fishing every other weekend done at 5 no stress. But we all had a hand at doing this to the industry we as a group let the other interests take it over.