Re: how you started farming

Posted by Clint Youse MO on November 14, 2007 at 16:48:31 from (64.111.61.87):

In Reply to: how you started farming posted by smigelski on November 14, 2007 at 05:05:09:

Well depends on when you want to figure I started bought my first bred gilt at the age of 6 put her in to dads sow herd we exghnage of labored the feed and utilities kept expanding my part of the herd then when I was 12 dad went back to driving a truck I tried to keep the 80 sow herd going it worked for about a year but was to much for me while being in school and dad only home on the weekends mean while i was already showing a few calves so I plowed under dads old hog lots cleaned up the buildings and sowed them to grass had 5 cows and a 30 our a week job on a hog farm of a friends then I went off to college and sold the cows for money for school. Started working at the local Case IH dealer there graduated and went in to parts department took about a year and decided I did not like working for the public the hog farm I had worked on in highschool was looking for a manager so I went back there and about a year later my friend and his wife wanted to move closer to the base of his family farm as this was a satelite facility so they offered it to me and I took them up on it went thru all the hoops and jumps to get a begining farmer loan from USDA Now I am 26 years old married and make a living Farming fulltime with 122 farrowing crates that rollover every 3 weeks I ship about 21000 pigs a year and am contracted to a local family owned producer The contract helped as much as any thing because it took out a lot of the risk and capital expense of breeding stock. I have been building my cowherd back up slowly and bought a G900 MM and blade still go get some of dad's old equipment if necessay

Sorry for the lnog story but that is mine to date I like to pay cash if possible but do borrow money and payback quick ASAp

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