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<blockquote data-quote="NECowboy" data-source="post: 1377055" data-attributes="member: 25360"><p>Around here even with full time ranchers the wife usually works in town. They do it to make ends meet and for the wife to be able to drive a fancy vehicle. Chalk it up to expensive inputs, low cattle prices and margins, expensive land and rent, the high cost of living these days (food prices probably way higher vs inflation these days, teenage girls just gotta have those 100 dollar buckle jeans), and higher expectations of keeping up with the joneses these days and buying kid a nice used pickup ($$$) when he turns 16 and going to every sporting event even if it is 3 hours away, and you need the off farm income. There are some people that only ranch part time but those are usually smaller operations. Then a lot of people here raise both crops and cattle and usually it works out ok (the bigger you are and less debt you have of course the easier) but years like this just make you scratch your head as both crop and cattle prices are terrible!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="NECowboy, post: 1377055, member: 25360"] Around here even with full time ranchers the wife usually works in town. They do it to make ends meet and for the wife to be able to drive a fancy vehicle. Chalk it up to expensive inputs, low cattle prices and margins, expensive land and rent, the high cost of living these days (food prices probably way higher vs inflation these days, teenage girls just gotta have those 100 dollar buckle jeans), and higher expectations of keeping up with the joneses these days and buying kid a nice used pickup ($$$) when he turns 16 and going to every sporting event even if it is 3 hours away, and you need the off farm income. There are some people that only ranch part time but those are usually smaller operations. Then a lot of people here raise both crops and cattle and usually it works out ok (the bigger you are and less debt you have of course the easier) but years like this just make you scratch your head as both crop and cattle prices are terrible! [/QUOTE]
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