Caustic Burno
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callmefence said:hurleyjd said:I had a diary once in my life as I thought that was the way of life. I was raised on a Diary and all of the uncles and neighbors had a dairy. But the same as any industry you had to always be improving and changing and it took money. I sold everything in 1981 all equipment except the land. Each year we were gradually whittling away the equity I had in the farm. My wife and I each found jobs and never looked back. Now I can take my retirement and sink it into a cow and calf operation that loses money each year. I am as old as the couple in the following story and realize that no way can I pass the farm on to the younger grand kids in the family and they make a living with it. But to realize the value in the land I need to sell it as do folks that have capital gains in a home that could be in the hundred thousands. If they sell they still have to have a place to live. The only saving grace in my and the wife's situation is we have a home that is not part of the farm. There is changes happening now and you have to change or get run over. Pretty well as the same as the share croppers in the south that up and moved to the industrial north and to California. What do you do with people that have no skills to do anything else?
https://www.yahoo.com/finance/news/theyre-trying-wipe-us-off-181648150.html
Teach em to build fence. Chopping all those farms up into 5-10 acre ranchetts creates alot of fence.
The exact opposite is going on here paper companies selling off larger tracts to doctors, lawyers and Indian Chiefs literally.
You can hire a Mexican cheap to build fence.