If he's like I was when I was facing it, he won't sleep for the next two years. I had anxiety about quitting and anxiety about staying in it. Dad gave me a cow when I was 10. We shipped cans at the time and I had my own can number and got a milk check. When you have it all of your life, the anxiety over loosing it can about kill you.
The whole thing with his son is something that I totally get too, and understand that it probably overrides the whole issue of whether to keep milking or not. Common sense goes out the window when you're looking out for your kids. I know this is kind of an obscure reference, but there was a movie called Batteries Not Included. An old couple owned a building in a city neighborhood that was being leveled by a developer and they wouldn't sell to him. He was doing everything he could do, legal and illegal to get their building. Through it all, there was a handyman who came to work every day, got down on his knees and worked on repairing an intricate pattern in the tile floor in the lobby. No matter what was going on around him, he was in his own little world placing those tiny little tile pieces in their pattern. I felt that way. The whole world was changing around me. There were only two dairies left in the township at the time and I was one of them. (None anymore by the way) I was going to the barn every day, oblivious to the changes in the industry that would make everything I was doing, pointless anyway.
We were having the conversation just a few days ago about the burden of having the old home place. My family has been here for almost 100 years. I was lamenting about how if I'd gone somewhere else and started up on a different place, I'd have the option of selling it now and walking away instead of feeling obligated to pass it along to my kids and how they wanted it one way or another, even if they can't farm right now because they have a life.
Hopefully something will happen to make the decision for Bruce so he doesn't have to. I just hope it's a good thing and not a tragedy.
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