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Posted by Farmerboybill on November 20, 2004 at 08:44:02 from (209.83.11.84):
I may actually become a real farmer and not just a dreamer very soon. My grandpa passed away very unexpectedly a couple months ago and his farm just may be up for sale very soon as grandma no longer wants it. The family gets first dibs and Dad wants it but I think I have a very good chance at getting it instead. It's 190 acres with 120 tillable. 12 acres would be corn-beans-corn or corn-corn-corn rotation because it is bottom ground but the rest would be corn-oats-hay-hay-hay as it is highly erodable hillside. So I was thinking.... Would it make more sense for me to go wheat-hay-hay-hay? Call me crazy but I think I can make more money concentrating on making small squares and large rounds of hay and straw than corn. The area is SW Wisconsin so there are a lot of small dairy farmers, at least for now. Madison is an hour and a half away and all those horse people need hay too. The farm comes with a full line of equipment -mostly Deere - except a self propelled combine. My father has a full line of farm equipment -mostly Deere- 5 miles away including a Gleaner R50. My father-in-law has a partial line of equipment -mostly Deere- 6 miles away and my wife's grandfather has a partial line of equipment -mostly IH- 7 miles away. With that much support, I may have a shot in the dark... Unless grandma gives me a break, I'm looking at 35000 dollar-a-year payments. That the scary part. Then there's the weather and the crapshoot of keeping the equipment going.... I know I'd still hafta get an off-the-farm job but I think I could possibly make a go of it - anyone else agree?
By the way, if anyone remembers me talking about a house I was gonna buy, it fell through. They wanted too much and I didn't know at the time how close grandma was coming to selling the farm. In retrospect, maybe not getting that house was a sign.
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