I don't get some of you guys...
SF3 and his parents, and maybe their parents worked their asses off, sacrificed, and went through all the same hard times as everyone else....
Today, they get to enjoy the fruits of their labour a bit.... a 10,000 acre farm works in the scale of millions of dollars. What's a winter vacation cost? $25,000? It won't break or make the bank and at the end of the day spending quality time with your family - your wife - is worth a lot more than a f***ing farm.
We're struggling to make it through one year to the next. Get creative... do what has to be done... maybe in 30 years Darcy and I can head somewhere warm (In our case it'll probably be anywhere we can have horses and go riding away from people - ha ha) and enjoy part of our lives... having built something for the next generation.
I in no way am jealous of guys like SF3, or JDgreen (Yes I brought you up hahahahha) , or others on here who have "made it".
On the other side, do you think just because things are paid for leaving crop out doesn't matter? If you have no crop, you have no cash flow, you can't pay bills. Doesn't matter if you have 1 acre of lettuce, 10 cows, 75,000 head feedlot, or a 30,000 acre grain farm.
Pisses me off seeing guys on here who themselves aren't that bad off spouting off against guys going on vacation... this job is stressful enough, if somebody wants to go to Hawaii let them... jealousy and greed don't reflect well on those posting b/s.
Anyway, I'm off to tune up the combine so we can finish soybeans tonight... Maybe we can catch up for a coffee one of these days, SF3! (before/after your vacation haha)
At the end of the day, we've lost two of our long time members... reflect on that... I'm sure the family they left behind agrees that memories of time spent together are more important than business and the stress of running it.
CIAO!
SF3 and his parents, and maybe their parents worked their asses off, sacrificed, and went through all the same hard times as everyone else....
Today, they get to enjoy the fruits of their labour a bit.... a 10,000 acre farm works in the scale of millions of dollars. What's a winter vacation cost? $25,000? It won't break or make the bank and at the end of the day spending quality time with your family - your wife - is worth a lot more than a f***ing farm.
We're struggling to make it through one year to the next. Get creative... do what has to be done... maybe in 30 years Darcy and I can head somewhere warm (In our case it'll probably be anywhere we can have horses and go riding away from people - ha ha) and enjoy part of our lives... having built something for the next generation.
I in no way am jealous of guys like SF3, or JDgreen (Yes I brought you up hahahahha) , or others on here who have "made it".
On the other side, do you think just because things are paid for leaving crop out doesn't matter? If you have no crop, you have no cash flow, you can't pay bills. Doesn't matter if you have 1 acre of lettuce, 10 cows, 75,000 head feedlot, or a 30,000 acre grain farm.
Pisses me off seeing guys on here who themselves aren't that bad off spouting off against guys going on vacation... this job is stressful enough, if somebody wants to go to Hawaii let them... jealousy and greed don't reflect well on those posting b/s.
Anyway, I'm off to tune up the combine so we can finish soybeans tonight... Maybe we can catch up for a coffee one of these days, SF3! (before/after your vacation haha)
At the end of the day, we've lost two of our long time members... reflect on that... I'm sure the family they left behind agrees that memories of time spent together are more important than business and the stress of running it.
CIAO!
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