Can I become a Hutterite colony?

[farmaholic]

But they are an innovative resourceful bunch. Alot of times they are involved in some sort of "supply management ag". I think they do everything they can themselves. Probably a lot of skill is bartered between colonies themselves.

We have a colony close by but their aggressive land pursuit hasn't really affected us, (not near as much as some other "entities" and speculators).

[Saskpraireboy]

Grassy, so you support the fact that mine and yours tax dollars support social service programs for them?

I dont

They can well afford to pay for eye care, dentil care etc as much or more than I can.

[BreadWinner]

Just wondering,
Say Breadwinners company XYZ999 kept most of its income 3 million invested in itself, while I had a young family. I have my lovely bride raising our 5 kids at home with no off farm income. I keep my dividends down to the bare minimum less than $45000.00 per year. Result is I get full drug coverages for our family, and the government send me a child allowance cheque for $5000.00 per month, qualified for low income programs. This is real and happens on allot of farms. In fact Trudumb also does something similar with his trust fund.

[pourfarmer]

They must be a lot smarter than anyone else farming then eh? To be able to double your land base, livestock, machinery and build a new farm yard site with all the grain and livestock infrastructure as well housing for 100 people every 15 years or so takes some doing if it is based on production of commodity agricultural products.

If old money financing is "Smarter", than yes. Like the neighbor boy whose father has 30 or 40 quarters paid for, the kid has new equipment, pickup truck, peterbuilts, new sled and quad, etc. Is he smarter then me, since I have none of those things?

Back to Hutterites
They have piles of liquidity because unlike us they don't have to shell out $7 a gallon for milk, they will bring in milk trucks from established colonies with dairies. Or vegetables from a gardening colony, etc. Most of it is based off a trade and barter system, which is not taxed. They don't have to earn 40% over each dollar just to pay the taxes. When we buy that $7 jug of milk, we're paying closer to $10 by the time we "earn" the initial $7.

If you want to skirt the tax system by using barter and trade, that is fine by me. But please don't expect to utilize extensive services that are paid for by taxes. That is simply unfair.

[grassfarmer]

Grassy, so you support the fact that mine and yours tax dollars support social service programs for them?

I dont

They can well afford to pay for eye care, dentil care etc as much or more than I can.

Who are you or I to judge whether they can afford to pay for dental care etc? You can't base their income on how many combines they have and whether they are new ones. If they are getting supported by social services I'll let social services judge whether they qualify. Not my area of expertise, not my business.

[seabass]

For a guy who professes to be so smart u sure are ****in stupid. Go to a colony and tell us what u find out. It will be exactly as the posters on here claim. **** sakes its hard to defend a dumbass.

[grassfarmer]

I've spent lots of time on a colony - swathing, baling, packing silage and sometimes just visiting. The favours I did helping them out when they needed an extra hand were always returned when I needed help the most. They were good neighbours and friends, hard working farmers and decent people. Judging by the ignorant, prejudiced comments you have made on this post you're obviously the one that doesn't know much about Hutterites.

[bgmb]

That's nice grass lots of neighbours helping neighbours goes on in westcdnag. This thread was supposed to be about tax/business structures not an attack on the character of hutterites. I am sure there is all kinds just like any group

[grassfarmer]

That's nice grass lots of neighbours helping neighbours goes on in westcdnag. This thread was supposed to be about tax/business structures not an attack on the character of hutterites. I am sure there is all kinds just like any group

That's a rather strange comment to direct towards me given that most of the posts on this thread have been attacking the character of Hutterites and i've been the one defending their character.

[sumdumguy]

I've spent lots of time on a colony - swathing, baling, packing silage and sometimes just visiting. The favours I did helping them out when they needed an extra hand were always returned when I needed help the most. They were good neighbours and friends, hard working farmers and decent people. Judging by the ignorant, prejudiced comments you have made on this post you're obviously the one that doesn't know much about Hutterites.

Our experience has been mostly good as far as neighbours go, they are great friends and we know we can count on them when we need them. That is not to say that all our experiences have been possitive but we've had worse neighbours such as one who pulled out the section pins to gain a few acres - 75 year old multi-millionaire bachelor. Just saying!

[bgmb]

Our experience has been mostly good as far as neighbours go, they are great friends and we know we can count on them when we need them. That is not to say that all our experiences have been possitive but we've had worse neighbours such as one who pulled out the section pins to gain a few acres - 75 year old multi-millionaire bachelor. Just saying!

Our hutterite neighbours have been good to. They don't spray us out and they don't try and farm on our side of the line. Just wish I could get a tax scheme going like they have.