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Posted by Dave from MN on August 10, 2006 at 19:41:57 from (64.13.56.17):
Just need to unload a little here. Ya know , ya grow in awe at the farmers around your neighborhood, your uncles , your grandfather, and other farms. Since being a kid round here I have seen my childhood idols farms grind down to nothing. I have seen one awesome family farm slowly wittle away since a suicide in the family. I have watched my granfathers farm go from 400+ acres to 200, to a split farmstead due to divorce, due to alcohol. Now to the point that the land will probably all be sold to a non relative and that farm I love soo much will be off limits and probably divided up. I visit with a old neighbor that at one time had 600 acres of the best land around. Now he rents his own house from some one that bought the buildings and a few acres, the rest of the land sold off in parcels year by year to a very well to do doctor. Land is well worth $10,000/ acre, and his farm is all gone and he, has nothing. Residual of dirty banking rates and elimination of grade B milk at very high interest times. I've seen a old fellow that had 400 acres sell 3/4 of it off cheap to a bunch of shifty people, only to make a gentlmans deal to sell the rest and be able to live till he passes in his home he was born in, only to have the buyer of the land call the county which ends in the house being condemned and he moved to nursing home, pretty much broke. I'm watching Millionairs buy up the other farmsteads at prices and deals that no ordinary guy like me can even hope of getting financing for. I listen to kids I grew up with talk about the $$$ they are gonna get once they inheret the family farm. I'm sick of it. I know I can make it as a small timer, but the landscape, the new neighbors, the lack of a close knit community make me just want to sell out at the going rate and buy some land in a place far away from here where people still have pride in their parents and grandparent property. My dreams of someday getting my mother childhood home are pretty much gone. County felt this area should be zoned 4 homes /40 acres and it seems young and old alike are jumping on that wagon., and I can honesty say that it makes me sick. Well , was kinda of a depressing day what with reality crushing childhood dreams and all. Those of you that are keeping the family farm in the family and keeping it a family FARM- I salute you and I envy you.
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