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<blockquote data-quote="Little Joe" data-source="post: 1829583" data-attributes="member: 39122"><p>My family has farmed in some way for as many generations as I know of. My mom and dad's dads were both oldest boys in their familie on row crop farms in the delta of eastern Arkansas, my dad's dad grew up during the depression on their cotton farm. My dad's dad row crop farmed a little and kept hogs, chickens, milk cows and worked a day job as a mechanic. Mom's dad wanted nothing to do with farming after grown so he drove a truck for a living. Both had younger brothers who became big row crop farmers and farmed my great grandparents land. I always wanted to be a row crop farmer when I was a kid but it's hard to borrow that kinda money to start if your immediate family is not row cropping. I always loved having livestock as a kid, riding horses and playing cowboy. I grew up next to my dad's parents and they bought me goats, chickens, ducks and some calves. Got an FSA youth loan at 17 and bought 5 bred cows and a bull, no real cattle experience. It was a disaster and I lost money coming and going but I paid off my loans and decided then I'd never borrow money to farm again. When I borrowed that money I had planned on never getting a job and making a living working with cattle, reality set in quick. In my adult life I've kept mama cows from time to time but my favorite part of cattle is finishing and direct selling beef. I've learned alot over the years of what not to do and it has made me a better cattleman, all at a cost, still have a ton more to learn.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Little Joe, post: 1829583, member: 39122"] My family has farmed in some way for as many generations as I know of. My mom and dad's dads were both oldest boys in their familie on row crop farms in the delta of eastern Arkansas, my dad's dad grew up during the depression on their cotton farm. My dad's dad row crop farmed a little and kept hogs, chickens, milk cows and worked a day job as a mechanic. Mom's dad wanted nothing to do with farming after grown so he drove a truck for a living. Both had younger brothers who became big row crop farmers and farmed my great grandparents land. I always wanted to be a row crop farmer when I was a kid but it's hard to borrow that kinda money to start if your immediate family is not row cropping. I always loved having livestock as a kid, riding horses and playing cowboy. I grew up next to my dad's parents and they bought me goats, chickens, ducks and some calves. Got an FSA youth loan at 17 and bought 5 bred cows and a bull, no real cattle experience. It was a disaster and I lost money coming and going but I paid off my loans and decided then I'd never borrow money to farm again. When I borrowed that money I had planned on never getting a job and making a living working with cattle, reality set in quick. In my adult life I've kept mama cows from time to time but my favorite part of cattle is finishing and direct selling beef. I've learned alot over the years of what not to do and it has made me a better cattleman, all at a cost, still have a ton more to learn. [/QUOTE]
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