A lot depends on your background, skills, abilities, and education. I taught high school ag for serveral years and was an ag extension agent before that. Both worked will with a little part time farming. I decided farming was what I liked to do and what I wanted to do so thats been where I've been full time for the last several years.
For me, and everyones circumstances are different I added a few different things to my hay, cattle, and horse business. Since both result in really inconsistant cash flow I invested in rental property and private paper. Both give me monthly cash flow to live on. On the farm, to increase business volume I started buying and reselling hay. Im pretty good at marketing and have a good location so thats worked out well. I decided I could either try to compete with other commodity producers or focus on selling a premium product at a premium price. Lastly, I do some custom work, mainly mowing, skid loader, and round baling. The key for me is I screen my jobs for ones that generate a lot of income for the amount of effort I have to put in, do them first even if it means something of mine doesnt get done, and always show up with good equipment and a sober operator. I could triple the size of the custom work if I wanted to.
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Today's Featured Article - Hydraulics - Cylinder Anatomy - by Curtis von Fange. Let’s make one more addition to our series on hydraulics. I’ve noticed a few questions in the comment section that could pertain to hydraulic cylinders so I thought we could take a short look at this real workhorse of the circuit. Cylinders are the reason for the hydraulic circuit. They take the fluid power delivered from the pump and magically change it into mechanical power. There are many types of cylinders that one might run across on a farm scenario. Each one could take a chapter in
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