Too many people, not just young people, want to start at the top. Either that or they say they want to be farmers but they really want to be tractor drivers. It amazes me how little understanding of business management a lot of people have wanting to get into the business. I like tractor driving, but I make way more money if I hire a lot of that done and spend my time in managing the business.
It is tremendously expensive to get started in farming but so is starting any large business from scratch. IMO there are two ways to get in and make a go of it. Animal agriculture, particularly dairy, though hogs and chickens can work too. All of them bring in regular income. I happen to be partial to milk because its not all tied up into contracts and you dont have to sink a mint of capital upfront. The other way is niche marketing. It can be organic, vegetables, hay, anything that you can distinguish yourself from the competition.
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Today's Featured Article - A Cautionary Tale - by Ian Minshull. In the early 1950s my father bought an Allis Chalmers B and I used it for all the row crop work with the mangolds and potatoes, rolling and the haymaking on our farm. The farm and the Allis were sold and I have spent a lifetime working on farms throughout the country. I promised myself that one day I would own an Allis. That time event
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