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Re: are the good times really f over for good
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Posted by barnrat on April 25, 2007 at 14:44:13 from (64.66.118.54):
In Reply to: are the good times really f over for good posted by northeast puller 1 on April 25, 2007 at 06:54:42:
What your speaking of sounds like mine and my neighbors farms. 20-50 cow dairys, we all are under 40 years old and have worked together when the crop or the weather called for it. When I was 24 years old my wife and I started dairy farming from scratch 7 years ago, bought my father in laws farm 3 years ago her in SW New York. The dealers are good people around here mostly Ma and Pa dealerships that give good service except for the ones asscoiated with Deere or CNH, but they are corporate dealerships. I'm still clearing hedge rows that my Father in law didn't keep up. I ask why are all the old time farmers are so closed minded and think bigger is better. I don't grow corn anymore(it's just not profitable). My cows get most of their feed from rotated pasture in the summer and grass silage and bmr sudangrass in the winter. Small farms are making a come back just wait and see, high corn prices will see to that.
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