I’ll be the last. I am in my mid 40’s, have no children, and my two older brothers are so far removed from the farm. My niece knows she will get the joys of doing what she needs to with this machinery and such. I think selling off and seeing someone farm my land will kill me so I’m gonna farm it until I fall over in the field. I don’t know how my parents and their parents moved off the farm, but they did.
I see some young kids with wealthier parents set up a farm and start out. They have been eager and well accepted into the farming community here, but their gut instincts just aren’t there for crops and machinery. I know that we all made rookie mistakes but when the times are this hard and they lease a new combine each year those mistakes add up and overwhelm pretty quick.
I was at my annual farm profit meeting this last week. He did a text in poll of the farmers there: who will retire in five years, who will go in 10-15, and who has more than 15 years. 80% of those who responded had less than five years left in their farming careers. I know some of them and they are in their mid 80’s. I know I won’t be in this earth when I am that age at the rate my body is going.
I hate like everything that farming is going the way of corporations but times change. Lots of people still love the land - there are just lots more ways to express it now days than sitting on the tractor for the months of May and June.
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