Posted by oldtanker on March 24, 2019 at 09:14:37 from (66.228.255.203):
In Reply to: BTO sale in April posted by greg oliver on March 24, 2019 at 05:38:54:
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Ask yourself why the small farms went under. We moved here to what at the time was dairy country when I was 16 in 1971. Everyone was milking. 10-20-30 head. Local BTO was 40 with you reading about a few guys going to that unprecedented 100 head. The small guy was already going away. Not because of money. because no one was there to take over. JR grew up, figured out he could make as much money or more working 40 hours a week and actually have time off to enjoy. So JR got a job or went to school and then got a job. Time for dad to retire? Or dad fell over dead from a heart attack? No one there to take over. I remember well being excited as all get out to be moving to a farm. Then my class mates in high school who had grown up on a farm. All they wanted to do was graduate, turn 18 and get as far and as fast from that farm as they could.
So those small farms that died and allowed BTO's to get bigger? They were going to die anyway because there was no one to take over.
Don't know about up there but here in the US? In 1950 there were about 35 million or so farms. Now it's about 3.5 million. So about 10 million farms died to make the 3.5 million larger farms what they are today.
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