There is a third option and I've heard of a few cases. Find a young guy maybe even on this site someone might know of a guy willing and wanting to start run him as a hired man for a year or two then let him buy in slowly. My choices are different as I don't have an family. At first I rented to a kid who worked with his dad and I was willing to make sacrifices to get him going but he had no real interest just looking for some easy money and had no respect for the land or people. My current renter is in his 30's farms with his dad and uncle and lives beside his grandfather. The are big operators but the family started in the area in about 1860. He respects the land is very polite and bonus a few rug rats along. What I did and he knows it is that when I die he will have a chance to buy the farm below market value. The last renter would have gotten over a million if he had kept it I found out latter he thought he would get it for free. The reason I but that in the rental is they know any improvement will benefit them later on. I always planned on running this farm until I died but my life hasn't been easy hanging on as I did an the damage is done. Does my renter do things I might not like to see done yes but it's a different generation I would like to have fences but he mows the road banks nice and without out fences it looks real nice little things like that. As far tractors go my 1550 is fine it's got plenty of power for the brush cutter had to go like crazy one morning and get the waterways mowed before the renter got there he doesn't give me any excuse to play. It's also got enough power to run small equipment I ran the disk over where I pulled the road fences out to level it and it was muddy so I leveled off where they filled the semi's. A 550 would be nicer on the side hills it used to be fun sliding of sideways but I'm getting over that. Also with the 1550 I've been collecting equipment and related literature to it I wish it had the quick hitch style three points and I'll find one some day did find the front weight for 50 a hydro electric cylinder for 25 that's half the fun the hunt. AS your thinking you not only have yourself to think about but your family it's been proven that grandkids that grow up around grandparents do better just ask grandma.
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