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Re: Does the old iron still do the job?
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Posted by Steve W.....unfortunately, it's a business on November 06, 2001 at 05:58:09 from (66.66.80.36):
In Reply to: Does the old iron still do the job? posted by old fashioned farmer on November 05, 2001 at 19:53:33:
Up where I live in upstate NY, if you travel down the road, you pass 30 or 40 former farms for every working one. And on almost all of those working farms, you see big, modern, four wheel drive, new equipment. You see a bunch of what we call around here "Gentleman farmers", whhich is short for guys who work a day job so they can go home and lose it on farming, but there aren't any succcesful farmers doing tillage with antiques. That is not to say that there aren't a lot of old Farmalls doing work, they just aren't doing the serious work. It's unfortunate, but farming is no different than Walmart displacing the little hhardware stores. Bigger, more efficient, and able to make things cheaper always wins in a capatalist society. And so it is a struggle for all of us to decide where we fit in. Just as the horse guys eventually lost to the tractor guys, big farms are the future. In the meantime, I'll keep my day job so I can throw my money away on my tractor. Take Care Steve
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