Have to agree, Spook. I seems that segment is dying. People are struggling in this economy to just survive, let alone have some toys and hobbies at a place in the country. Used to be lots of new mini-farms being established in my area, no longer. It all might recover, but I'm not expecting it. We are within an hour of the big city so the commute isn't too bad (if you have a job), but with higher gas prices it certainly is less attractive.
We got into raising some llamas, we enjoy showing them and the wife uses the fiber for spinning, weaving and doing knitting and crocheting. We thought we might sell some babies too, but there is no market now, anyone that has them now has all they want and no new folks are interested. Over the last 4 years I think I've seen two new houses being built in my immediate area, one was a replacement for a fire damaged one. I've noticed too in the 11 years we've been here just about all the livestock operations have vanished. I guess they are too busy running crops to mess with cows and steers and hogs. I don't even see as many horses as I used to, with high hay prices I can well understand.
We will be in the market for a CUT with a loader at some point in the next couple of years, but have to pay off the truck (almost there) and the car (next summer) first. Don't want to get into debt to JD, NH or Kubota credit companies, so a good used one looks like the ticket. We are getting into our late 50s and a loader to help clean up the barn sounds pretty nice now and into the future. Doing it all by hand now, dumping into a spreader attached to a '41 9N and spreading or piling it about every 3-4 days. The old N is fine for that and maybe running a mower and a rear blade, but not much else.
I wouldn't trade where we live for anything but I don't think many other folks can trade up to our life anymore.
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