Dalet: I want to hear what you have to say when one of the kids that help you farm stabs you in the back. I wrote below about ONE individual that got me. He was just then latest one to do so. I have helped many over the years get started or to just survive. I will more than likely help some one else down the road after the current bad deal has time to fade.
As for making mistakes. Well I still do make more than my fair share. I have never deliberately taken advantage of someone that helped me do something. Have I PO people off and not realized it?? YES. That is all part of growing up.
As for the younger generation of farmers. There are some that are still starting out old school like many of us have done. These will more than likely make it someday. The ones that are starting out in the big setup that their Dad/Uncle/Grand dad owns may not make it either. It is easier to make bigger mistakes with other people's money and assets. It is better to make little ones while you are just starting out.
As for the working harder than they do today. I think we all are not working as hard as we used too. The whole country's standard of living is much higher. I don't see many doing the long hard work I did when I started out on my own. I was going to night school, farming and working a job. 3-4 hours of sleep was normal for a few years. This was kind of the way it worked back then. Now it is not that way. I don't see many of the younger generation doing this.
Also the mechanization of farming is still changing how many farmers there will be making a living farming.
I am not sure we will end up better off. Good old hard work has it place. Is having computer controlled equipment do the work better than several farmers doing that "honest' day of work??? I don't think it will be.
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