Posted by jaxx fann on August 06, 2014 at 20:20:54 from (184.41.222.179):
In Reply to: Go Big Or Go Home posted by spudm on August 06, 2014 at 18:01:04:
I am a small farmer that stareted with nothing in the 80,s. I had to go to town and work for about 10 years till I could get my business in order. I really loved farming and returned full time, looking back I did ok. I ran old machinery and still do, but things now are much different. the guys around here aren't satified unless they are getting bigger with multi million dollar grain bin systems, trading machinery every year, installing irrigation on every farm they can and if apiece of land comes up for sale it doesn;t matter what it costs. I sometimes wonder when you get the ball rolling that it might roll right over one of them if they stop wheeling and dealing. It probably is a good thing I'm about retiring age because their thirst for expanding and acqiring more land to feed the beast will probably prove to be the hardest thing for a small guy to compete with. I think you will get pushed out no matter how efficent or how good you are. lol to the small guy
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