Posted by ntmcj on February 04, 2008 at 10:03:14 from (4.88.8.207):
In Reply to: appreciate a listening ear posted by old fashioned farmer on February 03, 2008 at 17:43:48:
Understand your dilemma. My ancestors were once major landowners where I grew up. I was fortunate and inherited a small part of my great-grandfather's homeplace. I live 200 miles away and work a regular job. I would starve if I had to farm it. Most of it is in timber and a cousin keeps a few cows in the pasture. Hopefully, when I retire in about 10 years I will move back and do some hobby farming. In this area, scale farming is all but dead. You are probably going to need to make more than 9.50 an hour in order to get started, even if you get the land free of charge (which it doesn't sound like this would be the case). Many parents of the older generations worked their cans off so their children could get an education and not have the worry of failed crops, bank foreclosures etc.. So don't be terribly hard on your mother. What you do not want is to wake up at 55 or so and have no retirement built up or no form of health insurance. One hospital stay would wipe out what you have worked a lifetime for. I am in the AF Reserves and we have scads of folks around my age (45) coming in after pulling a tour in the early 1980s and getting out. They can see retirement approaching and they either have nothing saved, or the company retirement plan went belly up (ie. Delta Airlines). They will be pulling weekend duty for the next 15 years or until they get 20 good years in so they can get a retirement and health insurance at age 60. All I am saying is make sure you have all bases covered.
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