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Wile E

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While I have been home resting from my hernia surgery it gives a guy time to surf U tube and watch old shows and read and other stuff.

Well, if any of you fellas watch U tube they always have one commercial in front of whatever you are about to watch.
Yesterday there was a very sobering commercial. It goes like this...... Less than 1% of the nation are farmers, most are older, many over 60YO. And most people do not put an ounce of thought into where food comes from. I am not a farmer, I have an uncle that is, he lives 80 miles from me. For all the farmers out there in the USA, please instruct your kids, grandkids on how to farm the land, run it like a business and do the right thing. (I do not know how else to say it)

Society today teaches kids that "only" white collar jobs are the good jobs. That is crap. I know of guys that are highly skilled welders/plumbers/HVAC techs that have done well. I have one friend that is a plumber, works for a commercial HVAC installer and he does side work, he has 4 kids and is 37 YO. (but he aint a farmer) No time anyway. The shameless bozos in the newsmedia talk like the only job with dignity is a white collar job. Please pass your farming trade on to your kids.
 
It's easier to get into college than a apprenticeship for plumbing, or any other trade. Very, very, few firms will train anyone. And I know some plumbers that haven't done too well, since the housing crash. Same for electrcians. As for farming, it seems if you aren't inheriting a farm, or marrying a farmers daughter, youre chances are pretty slim. The farmers around here are the wealthiest folks in the county. The farms keep getting bigger as they have for a century or more.
 
farmland does keep getting rented and sold to the big operators. it gives a sense of security for a retiring farmer to rent to rent to a big operator, but they just look at it like yep another 600 acres. it is my opinion that if they would rent to the guy who doesn't have a lot and is struggling he would take as good or better care of it because he has more time per acre and he must that six hundred acres is a big opportunity for him where it really isn't for the large farm. I think they need to give tax breaks to land owners who rent or sell their property to beginning farmers because it is so hard to get into this business these days
 
Some States do have beginning farmer programs but realize that the retired farmer needs a good check from a renter, and and untested youngster doesn"t have the successful track record of an older one. We"ve all seen the big talk and big plans. Granted, big farmers go broke too, but play the percentages.

Regarding average farmer age, that"s been well in the 50s for decades. MN Sen Humphrey was "warning" us of dire consequences of that in the 60s. Just a fact of life.
 
The global warming study released about now from the White House;

And the changes the EPA/ Corp of Engineers is pushing through to take over any waterway in the USA as federally protected land;

And the use of rural built but federally taken over irrigation districts:

Will result in most of our food coming from Ukrane, Africa, and South America in a generation or two.

We are doing to to food and agriculture what we did to manufaturing jobs 40-50 years ago.

Exporting them.

The talking heads are basically right, there will be only a few white collar jobs left.

The rest of us can sit in a federally funded apartment and look out the windows, complacent and happy.

Paul
 
I sure hope that is wrong, The EPA needs to be neutered. The amount of water around me can irrigate many farms. I have an artisian well that will run continuously.
 
Yep, sounds about right... I got my Eagle Scout at 13, and this next year am starting on an AS Degree from a local school, which I will have by the time I am 18...

Mom tells me I could be anything in the world (money money money) and I keep telling her I want to be a farmer, always have... She finally came out and told me the other day that "You couldn't survive in farming, just like everyone else, give up that dream and do something more logical" Well he!!, all of the farmers in the world might has well give up then huh!?!?!

I remember when I was at my Eagle Award Dinner, all of the Eagles from that year were at one place (159 boys), and we all had to take turns going up in front of everyone and telling them a little about our selves. My name being an "F" I was about in the middle of the group.

Every kid that had gone up there said that they were going to make video games, be a pop star, scientist, all of these BIG professions, and every time they would say what they wanted to be, they would be done, the crowd would clap and cheer, and they would walk off stage.

Well, the boy before me was 15 at the time and said that he wanted to be a Nuclear Chemist (what???) and the crowd went nuts, the stood up and CHEERED for this kid, so I went up, I was 13, told every one I made a huge bridge for my project, and then the man asked me, "Bryce, what are you going to be when you grow up?"

I looked out over the crowd with a smile and said, I AM GOING to be a farmer. My parents were the only ones that clapped...

Sad world that we live in, but that's just the way it goes... Bryce
 
Bryce,I was the same as you.They all said "you'll go broke'.I didnt listen.It's been a struggle,I'm still 'broke',but farming still while others have quit. Granted I use old junk,but its pd for,it does the job.I started with less than you have. Be strong,be willing to take the less desireable ground at first,save your money,wWork a 'day job' at first to survive(I did for years).Don't fall into the "Newer,bigger,better trap(read in lots of debt ).It's OK to drive a 40 yr old Pickup/tractor....New paint doesnt cut it,it's what is underneath the paint that will do the work.Persevere.Dont give up.You will make it! Good luck,my young farmer friend. Steve
 
As more and more city folks become indoctronated about fearing GMO's and buying free range eggs, and grass fed beef, I think there will be a real opportunity (there actually already is) to cater to those city folks and sell them food at about twice what they can buy it in the store for.

They will pay a nice premium for farm fresh, organic stuff.

That is why I kept 125 acres back and didn't sell it all.

Gene
 
I tried to encourage my son into the farm.He hated
it.He's now in the US Navy doing well as a Navy
officer.We couldn't be prouder.
 
I would have clapped for you!

I am in the same boat, although I didn't realize I wanted to farm till later in life. I am trying to make a go at it now with my in-laws and working a day job. Its tough, but its what keeps me sane from my day job. Its what I look forward to at the end of the day.

Keep going and be strong. We need more kids like you.

Kris A IN
 
Why would they? They have watched their father stuggle with lousy prices and the type of crap Paul stated all their life, and they know there is more gov. crap coming down the pike than you can shake a stick at.

I'm in a crotchety mood this morning and am tempted to say , Who cares if the idiot general populace has enough food at prices they can afford anyway? They are bringing it upon themselves. But I'll be polite and won't say it. (smile) Yup, got up on the wrong side of the bed this mporning.Lol!
 
Don't think that that isn't too far off. If all the tractors are GPS and eventually be controlled from a chair like a drone, don't you think the government will take over the farming industry too! They control health care, they control food, they control the people then too. Technology can be good, but if you get it so anyone can do it, thats when the government takes it over.......

Sorry something that has been on my mind lately with the slope we are on and the way technology is in farming.

Kris A IN
 
Years ago in schools, most everyone was from the farm with a few kids from town in each class, now it is the other way around and the farm kid is the odd one out. It is a down hill slide.
 
Totally agree, a friend of a friend traded in a Ford/NewHolland something on a brand new T seires, 210 horse I think?? He said it is the biggest POS he has ever run and he sold it back to the dealer and got his old tractor back....

I would rather farm, with old stuff than with the new... Plus on the old trucks, you can do WHAT EVER you want to the engine... :)
 
Bryce, see my comment below about the idiot general populace. Lol!

My grandpaprents were fond of sayin "don't bite the hand that feeds you" but obviously nobody these days knows the saying or grasps the meaning of it. John Q. Public and the politicians they elect have been biting the hand that feeds them for the last 60 years. I believe that chicken is going to come home to roost within the next 30 years or so.
 
I wish that was true .i rented at low rates to small farmer and also young kid both went ahead and did what the wanted plowed waterways out sprayed and never said what with . last year with a lot of reluctance put an add in paper hoping i get a good young farmer somebody that respected me and the land. the first thing i would ask is how you are going to farm. i rented to young farmer who brought his little kid along first thing he do is shake your hand . this spring when spraying he called before starting he wants to widen the water ways and clean up some brush also paycheck has doubled . saying that and so far i have been real pleased with him but his family farms over 2000 acres and thats big around here . i have thought alot about this and right now helping some small guys get started but if bto operater respects you and the land and little guy dont its not hard to choose
 
When my nephew had little kids, he commented that getting rid of disposable diapers was a problem. They wouldn't burn and he couldn't dump then anywhere as his were the only kids in that half of the county that were in diapers at that time!

His son (youngest) is now 13 and is taking a real interest in farming.
 
And on the first page it will say. "Get up very early, go to bed late, shovel and step in lots of POO, EVERYTHIng has an earthy smell, Live poor, your kids will always be hasseled in school,ETc.etc.etc. The ferm I now have is a garden in the back yard.
 
I will tell you right now that if you have a small farm (say 40 acres) you could work a regular job and farm the 40. I only have 3 acres 2 of the 3 are wooded. But I would like to get a good garden going, you know, "real" green beans, "real" tomatoes, I planted 8 or so tomatoes plants 2 summers ago and it was nice, but.......Being able to have your own grown stuff is nice. Sure beats paying $4 for 5 tomatoes wrapped in plastic at the store.
 
Yep them city people will pay real money for home grown whatever. Veggies, pumpkins for halloween, fresh eggs, even firewood. $ 50 per face cord.
I think you are on to something there. Top quality veggies marketed to the upper middle class city folks that want good food. (you should do well)

Cash only too.
 
Nah, we'll still produce plenty of food here, it'll just come from government subsidized mega-farms and the little guys will cease to exist due to sky-rocketing input costs, outrageous land prices, competition with B.T.Os, and overregulation....Oh wait a minute......
 
That's how I see it too-- plenty of potential buyers and enough big time operators (and wanna bes) I doubt if any good land will sit idle any time soon.
 
I saw a poster the other day that I really liked. I can"t remember the exact wording, but the jist of it was that if you are a white collar worker, sitting behind a desk in your cushy office building.....never forget that there was someone else out there that had to build both that desk and that building for you to have the job you"ve got.

Way to many nowdays have no clue where their food, their lights, their fuel, their buildings, or anything else that it takes to have a "normal" life, come from. Like I heard years ago, a poll was asking people where they"d get their milk if the dairy farmers weren"t around. Most said they"d just go to the local grocery store like they had always done. Guess they"ll get their hamburger the same way when the cattle farmers are gone, their makeup, sunblock, etc, etc the same way when all the quarries are gone.

The list is endless, but way too many folks nowdays simply do not have a clue as to what their lives would be like without folks like the ones on this board.....Sad but true....
 
I saw an editorial letter in a newspaper and it said something like hunters are cruel they shouldnt kill the poor wild animals,just go to the store where they make meat ,and buy it there! people havent got a clue!
 
That has been happening in the Midwest since the 1950's. Larger size farm of 160 acres became 320 acres, 1320 acres, 3600 acres, becomes ... Herd sizes are expanding exponentially over the same time also. It hasn't hurt production.
 
I guess we're supposed to read your mind as to what you found so disturbing in that advertisement. From your description, I can't follow what the point of the ad was.

The urbanization of America is hardly a new development. John Deere and Cyrus McCormick made their fortunes developing technologies that allowed farmers to till more ground with fewer workers. Who would have believed fifty years ago that a "family" farm might cover ten thousand tillable acres?

Small towns that rely heavily on agriculture are suffering the most from this trend. They are shrinking and dying, essentially turning into retirement communities for the older folks who have stayed on while the younger generations have left for greener pastures.

If you really want something to worry about, consider what will happen when farms on the Great Plains pump the last of Ogallala aquifer dry.
 
sure. At some point, one of the flimsy links of BS chain they are selling us will snap, and it will all come tumbling down. Only the sellers truly believe the stupidity of it all.
 
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