Like Jon posted last week, or maybe earlier this week, we too bought a little place. Ours is 80 acres of all grass, an update old farm house, nice 3 car brick garage, and a barn that is almost usable for horses, 1 milk cow or something, after we do some work on it. Its just going to be a hobby "ranch" maybe. Since all the livestock we own at this point are equines, I guess we are horse ranchers. The wife got a decent job at the Cat dealer in Salina, and since I crawled into a truck, it really makes no difference where we live, as long as I can get the truck in. Hopefully the moisture that has been following us the last 4 moves we have made, will follow us here.
Speaking of trucking, you guys that have grain storage, may want to hold onto what grain you are going to produce. When I go North, I see lots of flooded out crops, south and west its dried out. I think there is going to be less produced then what the bigwigs think. I know in years past, if you drove from South Dakota to Texas a person could get a good Idea of what grain prices would end up at. Now days there are to many speculators involved, but from what I see, they are over guessing it.
Speaking of trucking, you guys that have grain storage, may want to hold onto what grain you are going to produce. When I go North, I see lots of flooded out crops, south and west its dried out. I think there is going to be less produced then what the bigwigs think. I know in years past, if you drove from South Dakota to Texas a person could get a good Idea of what grain prices would end up at. Now days there are to many speculators involved, but from what I see, they are over guessing it.