Re: O/T Helping Young Guys Get into Farming

Posted by 71ford100 on December 14, 2008 at 14:47:16 from (72.36.61.201):

In Reply to: O/T Helping Young Guys Get into Farming posted by T-Rev on December 14, 2008 at 12:35:20:

I have quite a bit to say about this topic. Being 19 here is a little from the "kids" point of view. I plan on farming full time when I get out school assuming I can find a place and make it work. My parents bought this place 2 years ago and most people said we wouldn't make any money blah blah blah. The difference between most people who start out is we didn't buy anything on credit. Now it is slow farming with a MM M670 and a McCormick Deering WD-9 but it got it done this summer and the input costs were a lot less than people who have borrowed money for newer equipment or whatever.

Now I don't think that young people can make it on conventional agriculture. There is no way that I could buy a dryland wheatfarm in SEWY and go on a wheat/summerfallow rotation. Organic farming, non tradional crops, and other ways are the way to go in my opinion. I actually get a kick out of reading grips about artifical fertilizers when it would be so much cheaper to use green plow down crops or legumes interseeded with corn or a taller crop. ANYWAYS back onto topic...

Another point I have is most older farmers say it would be nice for the younger generation involved and so on and when that oppertunity comes most older people would rather sell out to rent out to a big operation. Last year a neighbor I cut hay for for several years was just letting all his farm ground sit idle (about 800 acres) so I asked if he would be interested in renting it out and he said no he was going to farm it. About a month later he sold the entire place minus the house to a big operator. Personally that doesn't make any sense since he had that ground handed to him and he just wasted it away but whatever not my deal. I see it all the time around here most of the ground is now farmed by bigger operators and the small farmers usually just rent out to them instead of the smaller guy.

In summary I hear this quite often that the young people don't want to get involved but I don't find it true. I have lots of friends that would love to farm but simply know they can't afford to get started or are actually discouraged by the older people to do it.

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