I am maybe close to your age - I am 40. I started by working a job to make enough money to buy the farm. I grew up farming but realized in high school that I would never farm it because of infighting with step siblings. I'm better off because I didn't continue the family farm. I hated living in town but had that end goal. I both own and rent ground and farm about 1000 acres together with a business partner. I work myself to death but I love every minute. I don't have anything fancy or new, but I have borrowed to get a new planter in the last year since I know better profits will come from more precision. I will buy out my partner completely in 13 years so I have to be the one to think longer term.
Last summer we had a "meet and greet" at the farm for someone running for the house in Kansas. She asked me about become a farmer today and how we could get more "kids" to the trade. She reminded me that there are all kinds of grants and loans out there for upstart. I reminded her that anyone my age saw what the 80's did to people in bed with the bank and if the younger kids didn't see it then their parents did. I may be in the minority but the thought of borrowing to start out makes be sick to my stomach. All it takes is one bad grain year (or $3 corn) or one mad cow to ruin life as you know it. Farmers are the only job that spends all of their own money for all of their own equipment and relies on essentially a couple of paydays a year. I run hogs and cattle as well so that helps, but that also means I have not had a night away from the farm since leaving the city. And gladly, I may add. Growing up we looked down on renters. We were also "big" because we owned a whole section. Times have changed a lot. When families migrated to town they saw the value of keeping the land. That makes for lots of renters out there.
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Today's Featured Article - The Rescue of a Fordson F - by Anthony West. Introduction I live in the UK and have for many years restored Fordson tractors (in the main model N's). I have also restored and shown model F's, E 27N's, Field Marshall Series 2, David Brown Cropmasters and the old rey Fergeson T 20. At one time I had seven restored examples which were shown and used in ploughing matches. As most restorers, I have a number of war stories I can relate on a range of topics that may help other like minded and interested people. Perhaps my first p
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