You pretty much nailed everything that I was going to say about the topic of how lots of family farms fail. Lots of farms around here were ran by hard-headed old tyrants who never bestowed any sort of management knowledge or management responsibility onto the next generation, therefore setting the place up for its demise when they passed. The next generation must be taught to make their own decisions and be given the chance to run an enterprise on the farm before the whole place is left in their lap.
In another vein, some people are just hell bent on failure and it's simply unavoidable. I'm currently watching a multi-generational dairy farm in my area slowly implode. Of course if you talk to them, they're the best around, but it's fairly obvious the wheels are wobbling. Machinery is shot, not cared for, left to set out all over the place; yet they scarf up every available acre to farm. Farmstead looks like a bomb went off, buildings in disarray, garbage everywhere. They're lucky they're not on a main road where lots of passers-by can see their cows or PETA would likely be at their door. The smell is just awful. Its sad, not sure who is to blame exactly, but its a shame.
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Today's Featured Article - Grain Threshing in the Early 40's - by Jerry D. Coleman. How many of you can sit there and say that you have plowed with a mule? Well I would say not many, but maybe a few. This story is about the day my Grandfather Brown (true name) decided along with my parents to purchase a new Ford tractor. It wasn't really new except to us. The year was about 1967 and my father found a good used Ford 601 tractor to use on the farm instead of "Bob", our old mule. Now my grandfather had had this mule since the mid 40's and he was getting some age on him. S
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