Posted by NY 986 on January 07, 2015 at 12:19:57 from (174.236.33.134):
In Reply to: Buying Land posted by picassomcp on January 07, 2015 at 08:53:15:
I wish I had a good idea but everybody is about the dollar anymore. It does not help if you are viewed as an outsider in the community. If the land owner in question goes back 50 years as being friends with a large financially capable farmer there is very little that is going to stop them from doing business with each other when the time comes. Can you do something on a smaller scale such as fresh vegetables? Something that would leave time for a career to help pay for the acreage and scratch your itch for farming. A lot of younger guys are at the wrong point in the cycle to live the dream that guys who are 65 and older have done by being able to start when things cost less and a job in town played a larger factor. I do the time machine fantasy once a week anymore just to imagine if I could have gotten started before the 1980's when bankers would not talk to anybody who did not have their own money.
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