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 - Timing Your Magneto Ignition Tractor - by Chris Pratt. If you have done major engine work or restored your tractor, chances are you removed the magneto and spark plug wires and eventually reached the point where you had to put it all back together and make it run. On our first cosmetic restoration, not having a manual, we carefully marked the wires, taped the magneto in the position it came off, and were careful not to turn the engine over while we had these components off. We thought we could get by with this since the engine ran perfectly and would not need any internal work. After the cleanup and painting was done, we began reassembly and finally came to t
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