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<blockquote data-quote="Dave" data-source="post: 1730683" data-attributes="member: 498"><p>People talk about how you just can't make it work today. Well, I remember well how my Dad wanted to make a living raising cattle. As a young kid in the '50's it seemed like every weekend we took a drive to look at a place which was for sale. There was one in particular that I remember well. It was 730 acres of mostly real good bottom ground. A 3 story 5 bedroom farm house, 2 big barns, and two forks of the Satsop river flowing through it. Some other features which really impressed me as a 7 year old kid. Only $73,000. What a buy. But he had a real good job at the time which was paying about $4,500 a year. How do you make a payment on that place with those wages? Making hay would have been with an 8N or similar tractor with a 6 foot sickle bar mower. All baled in little squares that would have to be picked up by hand. I don't know when or why Dad gave up on his dream but by the '60's we weren't looking at farms or ranches anymore. I don't think that leasing land to put together a herd ever crossed his mind. If you aren't born into it, win the lottery, or have a rich relative die leaving you in the will, leasing and building a herd while working a day job is about the only way to go.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Dave, post: 1730683, member: 498"] People talk about how you just can't make it work today. Well, I remember well how my Dad wanted to make a living raising cattle. As a young kid in the '50's it seemed like every weekend we took a drive to look at a place which was for sale. There was one in particular that I remember well. It was 730 acres of mostly real good bottom ground. A 3 story 5 bedroom farm house, 2 big barns, and two forks of the Satsop river flowing through it. Some other features which really impressed me as a 7 year old kid. Only $73,000. What a buy. But he had a real good job at the time which was paying about $4,500 a year. How do you make a payment on that place with those wages? Making hay would have been with an 8N or similar tractor with a 6 foot sickle bar mower. All baled in little squares that would have to be picked up by hand. I don't know when or why Dad gave up on his dream but by the '60's we weren't looking at farms or ranches anymore. I don't think that leasing land to put together a herd ever crossed his mind. If you aren't born into it, win the lottery, or have a rich relative die leaving you in the will, leasing and building a herd while working a day job is about the only way to go. [/QUOTE]
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