Posted by rrlund on November 06, 2016 at 07:50:30 from (162.250.24.40):
I can't see myself ever quitting farming with a big bang by selling out. It'll be more of a fading away over time. The closer I get to 67 the more I think about how to slow down. I don't know if I want to get out of the cattle business and raise grain and hay,or keep the cows,but fewer of them.
I could give up the rented ground,keep half as many cows and just work my own land,or keep the rented ground and get rid of the cows. Decisions,decisions.
For years,I've thought if I was gonna farm but didn't have to,farming like one of my uncles did,or an old guy to the south of me would be the way to go. Uncle Earl had 67 acres just east of town,that used to belong to my grand mothers family. He had an 8N Ford when I was little,then traded it off on a Massey Ferguson 35 in the early 60s. He traded that one for a Ford 3000 in the early 70s and farmed with that until he passed away. I'd always thought I'd like to have that place and farm it with an Oliver 550.
Joe,to the south of me had a long 80 with a lane down the middle of it and farmed it with an Oliver 70. That one was always my idea of an idyllic farm.
The question too though is,do I just keep farming the old home 80 and rent out the other 160,or keep farming all of my own ground? And the hard part is,which tractors do I keep? If it's just the home 80 that I work,the Oliver 77 would do it,but if I'm going to keep a tractor that size,why not the 1550? It has a 3 point hitch. Why not keep both and have a second tractor? Then there's the FWA 1365. How do you ever get rid of a FWA tractor once you've had one?
If I keep farming the whole 240,ya,it's a no brainer to keep the White 2-105 with the air conditioned cab. But would I still need the 2-135? If I still had cattle,I'd still chop silage. The 2-105 would probably do it,but it'd be slow.
I don't know. It's kinda like Brent's post about moving I guess. If a tractor sits for two years without being used,get rid of it. lol
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