Re: Real farmers, and fellas that like to pose as farmers

Posted by JD Seller on March 19, 2018 at 17:13:17 from (208.126.189.95):

In Reply to: Real farmers, and fellas that like to pose as farmers posted by Bruce from Can. on March 19, 2018 at 14:10:06:

Bruce you should thank every single one of the posers you see. Without them the farm population numbers would be so low that no one in any form of government elected office would even listen to anything you said. In the US less than 2% make their living only farming.

I guess I qualified as your Poser definition for 20 years. I had a full time off farm job that sure helped pay the bills. The darn farming part sure did not profit enough to pay for itself and feed the family.

I had a farmer jump me at a farm sale when I was employed as a equipment salesman. He was mad that I was bidding on the equipment and driving the prices up for the "real" farmers. He sure was not complaining when I was buying his feeder calves from the sale barn to feed out. I bet he would not complain if I was bidding at HIS farm close out sale. So was I a farmer????

How do you define who is a farmer???? A class mate of mine started out with a house and barn on five acres of ground. He started farrowing hogs in that barn. In a few years he built a large confinement farrowing building on that same five acres. HE owned a skid steer loader, MF 65 tractor and a manure spreader. He did that until he was forty years old. Was he a farmer with only five acres of ground??? Di he become a farmer when he turned forty and bought 300 acres with cash across the road from him????

Your premise kind of made me mad. I welcome people to join in the farming life style. I think it is the best way in the world to raise a family. I do not care if it is a fellow with a single bottle calf in a pen in the corner of his yard. He is doing the best he can with what he has. The sad fact is very few farm kids can make a living farming. If I remember correctly two of your three kids work off the farm. If they get married and have some kids an raise a few bottle calves will they be posers????

Do we need to carry a copy of our Schedule F tax return to show we have so much farm income to get a bidder number at a farm auction?? Maybe get into a livestock show???

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