Posted by rrlund on April 02, 2015 at 06:52:08 from (162.250.27.207):
In Reply to: BTO's posted by Goose on April 02, 2015 at 06:23:53:
I'll tell you,I never reached BTO status,but I was building up a dairy operation because I had two sons. They milked with me when they were in high school,but when they decided that wasn't what they wanted to do for a living,I came to the same realization that you're talking about. If I wasn't knocking myself out for them,there was no sense knocking myself out at all. I gave both of them one last chance to change their mind and start to take the responsibility for it and they both said no,so the cows went. I hauled Grade B canned milk in the early 70s and saw those old guys from the WW I generation out there all hobbled over,working all day long just to send a few cans of milk every other day and I knew I was going to get to that point. It was a matter of cutting back to something easier that I could handle alone,or die of old age before I was 60,and I have no doubt that I would have. So ya,if you have kids who want to farm and you're still pushing it hard after the age of 60,I can understand that,but if you don't have and you're going it alone or with hired help,you need to ask yourself why. There is a point where this stuff will start to pay you back if you just ease up and let it. I don't know where the money was coming from after I quit milking,I just know it was coming in from everything I had accumulated and that it was enough.
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