I`m going to have to disagree just a bit, I don`t think a good day job is needed, and in many cases can be a hindrance to a small guy starting out. I`m just starting out myself, and this last summer was a bad one for hay up here. My dad and I did better than most up here because we had the time to put into the ground, and we were ready to cut when an opportunity arose, we were tedding hay at 10AM instead of some others at 5:30PM when they get off work, and we got more hay up than the folks with bigger, better equipment and day jobs. I don`t need much to live on, I live simply and expect to continue to do so for some time. I got lucky and get to start out with better equipment than I might have, but all but 5 acres I`m working belongs to someone else, some is being share-cropped, some I am allowed to take for now for opening up neglected fields (with a brush-hog and a chainsaw), and they are all small pieces the local BTO did not want because they are not worth his time. I could not have opened up the old fields I did if I was working full time, and I do not have the newest equipment, and could be doing the same thing with even older equipment, but not if I had to devote 10 hours a day to someone else.
I`m 26 and just getting started, and I think there is hope for farming. Anyone who is willing to put in way to much work to barely scratch out a living, and make just enought to turn over a few more acres next year, find old worn out equipment and spend the winter fixing it up (I`m putting my $200 JD 430 back together, I think I will get more bang for my buck than taking out a loan for a bigger, newer tractor), might just make it. I have no debt at this point, I hope to keep it that way as long as possible, and any debt will be for land, and land only.
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Today's Featured Article - A Cautionary Tale - by Ian Minshull. In the early 1950s my father bought an Allis Chalmers B and I used it for all the row crop work with the mangolds and potatoes, rolling and the haymaking on our farm. The farm and the Allis were sold and I have spent a lifetime working on farms throughout the country. I promised myself that one day I would own an Allis. That time event
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