Posted by HeyPigFarmer on January 28, 2008 at 17:26:46 from (24.236.189.31):
In Reply to: Our farming ventures posted by Dave from MN on January 28, 2008 at 06:16:46:
I was born and raised on a farm. We had a small hog operation, never more than 100 head at a time. It was always just something on the side for my dad, he was a mechanic turned telephone employee. In my younger years he put his mechanic skills to work fixing anything we could buy cheap to use and then sell and hopefully us kids could learn something from it, and boy did we ever. When I was 14 I started to buy my own equipment to fix and sell along with working with a guy who was big into restoring Oliver tractors or any other thing he wanted that day. Of course when I would only charge $350 labor to pull the motor, major it, install and do the break in he couldn't see doing it himself, that and he bought the parts and brought them to me so who knows what deals he cut on that. Cutest one was a Massey Harris Pony, had the tiniest little parts in it. Anyway, around that same age I started to work for other local farmers, learned a lot more about farming from them than I had anywhere else. Then I spent a few years in school to become a civil engineer because I figured you can't count on farming to pay the bills all the time plus you need insurance and a retirement. While I was in school I was calling the shots on our family farm because dad didn't believe me I could increase yield while decreasing the amount of money we were spending. From that year on I was in charge. While at school I managed to spend a lot of time scouring the internet and found a few good deals I couldn't pass up, that's how I got my TR70, 4430, 7000 MaxEmerge and our Semi. Now finally got done with school, got a job, moved back home, looking for a place to buy of my own, get back into the hogs and maybe a few cattle. It's hard fighting with developers, and idiots from the city. They'll pay through the nose to buy a 40, plant a house in the middle of it, put the rest in CRP and think they have really done something because they are living in the country.
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