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When I was going to school, I would listen to John Madden's KCBS call in show each morning. I got a lot of wisdom from Coach Madden, like you can only hurt in one place at a time and more pertinent to this discussion, when player announces that this will be his last year, he has already quit.
So many people have given up and decided that if they didn't make it no one can.
 
StrojanHerefords said:
When I was going to school, I would listen to John Madden's KCBS call in show each morning. I got a lot of wisdom from Coach Madden, like you can only hurt in one place at a time and more pertinent to this discussion, when player announces that this will be his last year, he has already quit.
So many people have given up and decided that if they didn't make it no one can.
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Attitude. Amazing what it can do, if you let it.
 
This essay really hits home hard for me. I don’t know how much of my own story, I want to share online. But, there are a lot of us in the thirty five to forty year age range, who have been on the farm with the understanding that we would have a chance to make a go of things and know we realize that tomorrow never comes.
The way farms are passed down generation to generation has become dysfunctional for a few reasons. One land is ridiculously expensive so it is impossible to buy land from relatives and also people live a lot longer. Both of my grandfathers lost their parents when they were 25. My grandmother is still alive and my dad is 73.
For anyone, growing up on a farm. Get a career path of the farm, make your own money and then come back.
 
StrojanHerefords said:
This essay really hits home hard for me. I don't know how much of my own story, I want to share online. But, there are a lot of us in the thirty five to forty year age range, who have been on the farm with the understanding that we would have a chance to make a go of things and know we realize that tomorrow never comes.
The way farms are passed down generation to generation has become dysfunctional for a few reasons. One land is ridiculously expensive so it is impossible to buy land from relatives and also people live a lot longer. Both of my grandfathers lost their parents when they were 25. My grandmother is still alive and my dad is 73.
For anyone, growing up on a farm. Get a career path of the farm, make your own money and then come back.
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I have for years thought that children should never go straight back to the farm or ranch after high school or college. They need to get out and see how other farms and ranches function (or don't function) and how other businesses, government, etc. operate. Some may take a whole other career path. I finished college when Dad was only 43 years old and Grandpa was still in control of the ranch. I had a place there, but it was going to be as an $800/month hired hand for 30 years to have a shot at being the boss. I took a different path and have no regrets. The timing and circumstances were never right to go back, but the life experiences off the ranch would have helped immensely if I had gone back.
 
StrojanHerefords said:
This essay really hits home hard for me. I don't know how much of my own story, I want to share online. But, there are a lot of us in the thirty five to forty year age range, who have been on the farm with the understanding that we would have a chance to make a go of things and know we realize that tomorrow never comes.
The way farms are passed down generation to generation has become dysfunctional for a few reasons. One land is ridiculously expensive so it is impossible to buy land from relatives and also people live a lot longer. Both of my grandfathers lost their parents when they were 25. My grandmother is still alive and my dad is 73.
For anyone, growing up on a farm. Get a career path of the farm, make your own money and then come back.
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I totally understand. Experience of Gabe Brown might help. Relays it in his book Dirt to Soil.
 
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StrojanHerefords said:
This essay really hits home hard for me. I don't know how much of my own story, I want to share online. But, there are a lot of us in the thirty five to forty year age range, who have been on the farm with the understanding that we would have a chance to make a go of things and know we realize that tomorrow never comes.
The way farms are passed down generation to generation has become dysfunctional for a few reasons. One land is ridiculously expensive so it is impossible to buy land from relatives and also people live a lot longer. Both of my grandfathers lost their parents when they were 25. My grandmother is still alive and my dad is 73.
For anyone, growing up on a farm. Get a career path of the farm, make your own money and then come back.
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I've done that twice... Working off the farm and investing to buy ranches can be done. After I made the mistake of selling my first I wondered if I could ever afford the second. A few good decisions got me right back in the saddle. If I was interested in being rich I would have been better off concentrating on the stock market and real estate. But I don't need to state the obvious here. We all know that the love of cattle and the outdoors is no way to buy a Lamborghini, lol
 
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I grew up with windmills and I have spent a lot of time hauling water when the wind didn’t blow. We have gone to solar pumps and they have been really reliable. I have learnt that you really want the water storage as high as possible to have as much pressure as possible. As far as troughs, we have permanently installed tire tanks and concrete tanks and they work well but they tend to cause the cattle to manure around the troughs. I have grown to really like HDPE pipe on the surface rubbermaid 300 gallon troughs. They have been reliable and allow us to put water where animal impact is needed.
The next thing I am looking into is a water monitor. I have seen several of them and I am just not sure if they are a mature technology yet.
 
Dave said:
Most of the big successful ranchers here are the best cowboys. And a lot of the ranchers let their cowboy employees run some cows in with the ranch cows. Doesn't cost the rancher much to add in 20-50 cows and it gives the cowboy a big bonus when he sells the calves who didn't cost him anything to raise.
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Most stock cow herds are 50 or less.
 

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