Posted by Larry B 1486 on November 15, 2011 at 17:45:46 from (98.19.162.3):
In Reply to: OT. FUTURE OF FARMING posted by NE.IL on November 15, 2011 at 02:56:57:
The future of farming will be ALL or NOTHING. Look at the changes in the last twenty years. There is no starting on your own today, not on row crop farming. The part of the country where I live there are already farmers farming 9 to 16 THOUSAND acers. Equipment companies, John Deere Case IH, keep coming out with bigger equipment each year and farmers have to have it. The only thing is that the Good Lord don't make anymore ground today so the larger operator finds a way to rent it out from the smaller farmer and that is what the equipment companies want today. They don't want ten different farmers farming a thousand acers each because maybe 5 out of thoes 10 might be running a different color so they want to get all consolidated into one and have control. Five years ago we were putting 2800 acres and today we are down to 2000. The man farming 12,000 acers started paying $225.00 a acre and we can't do it. Like I said it will be all or nothing.
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