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<blockquote data-quote="Ky hills" data-source="post: 1609796" data-attributes="member: 24816"><p>Bottom line things change and not always for the better or for the worse it depends on who is in the best position to take on the new changes.</p><p>Years ago folks here lived off the land as much as possible. If they had much land at all they had a milk cow or two, a few beef cows, sheep, hogs and chickens. They raised gardens and canned the extras. In my early life we had a local stockyards, two tobacco warehouses, a John Deere tractor dealer. At that time we had GM, Chevrolet, Ford and eventually a Dodge dealer. Now we have no stockyards or tobacco warehouses in this town, and we have lost the Ford dealership, the Chevrolet and GMC dealerships have been combined under new ownership. I had the unfortunate opportunity to buy a private paint store in our dying downtown. Folks thought it was the right thing to do because farming was not practical to make a living. The big box stores out on the by pass soon attracted about all of the business as no one wants to go downtown anymore lamenting there is nothing there. Lost on that deal now trying to keep the boat floating on the farm. Hindsight if I had invested in farm I would have been just as well off and in a better position today. I really do believe that there is hope for some farms the trends of specializing production have changed everything but smaller niche markets can be successful too IF the right niche is found. I think the smaller farms are at a serious disadvantage but I think some are still viable. The heart of the problem is if all of the small farms were to fold up, the current larger farms would likely not see any bump in profits because the current trends of importing would just be all the more favorable. The local economies are struggling in a lot of areas and rural communities are largely reliant on agriculture for what it does for those communities.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Ky hills, post: 1609796, member: 24816"] Bottom line things change and not always for the better or for the worse it depends on who is in the best position to take on the new changes. Years ago folks here lived off the land as much as possible. If they had much land at all they had a milk cow or two, a few beef cows, sheep, hogs and chickens. They raised gardens and canned the extras. In my early life we had a local stockyards, two tobacco warehouses, a John Deere tractor dealer. At that time we had GM, Chevrolet, Ford and eventually a Dodge dealer. Now we have no stockyards or tobacco warehouses in this town, and we have lost the Ford dealership, the Chevrolet and GMC dealerships have been combined under new ownership. I had the unfortunate opportunity to buy a private paint store in our dying downtown. Folks thought it was the right thing to do because farming was not practical to make a living. The big box stores out on the by pass soon attracted about all of the business as no one wants to go downtown anymore lamenting there is nothing there. Lost on that deal now trying to keep the boat floating on the farm. Hindsight if I had invested in farm I would have been just as well off and in a better position today. I really do believe that there is hope for some farms the trends of specializing production have changed everything but smaller niche markets can be successful too IF the right niche is found. I think the smaller farms are at a serious disadvantage but I think some are still viable. The heart of the problem is if all of the small farms were to fold up, the current larger farms would likely not see any bump in profits because the current trends of importing would just be all the more favorable. The local economies are struggling in a lot of areas and rural communities are largely reliant on agriculture for what it does for those communities. [/QUOTE]
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