Non profit farming

Rollie NE PA · Jul 13, 2014

I live 2 miles away from a Non profit, educational farm. Formerly Hillside Farms, it is now The Lands at Hillside.
The farm was bought from a family who had operated it since the late 1800's and boasted one of the oldest registered Holstein herds in the country. The farm relys on alot of volunteer labor and is awarded grants from various sources.
It has a dairy store/ice cream parlor and sells milk in glass bottles (very popular).

bobgrimes · Jul 13, 2014

where?

Deluxe · Jul 13, 2014

According to my wife, I run a not for profit farm . Lol

Formerly PaMike · Jul 13, 2014

Non profit and NOT for profit. Slightly different but end up with the same result..

Bret4207 · Jul 13, 2014

(quoted from post at 17:58:27 07/13/14) Non profit and NOT for profit. Slightly different but end up with the same result..

Exactly. A tax write off for some corporation or corporations, often with public monies involved. We've got a couple of "not for profit" type outfits up here that seem to get a lot of public and private funding. The ups and downs of the economy/farming don't seem to affect them.

Bob Bancroft · Jul 13, 2014

Aren't "non-profit" and farming synonymous?
If I let any profit slip through I have to give it to the gov't. anyhow!

And isn't all farming educational?

Wile E · Jul 13, 2014

What is kinda funny is that most farming is non-profit.......Seems hard to judge what (non-profit is) Since if one guy owns the farm and works it he gets paid..........A little.

IH2444 · Jul 13, 2014

Not to stir any dander, But I know a lot of farmers who always claim to be going broke. Yet get a new 50k truck every 3 years, new tractors, put kids thru nice colleges, etc.
And then retire to Florida.

Anonymous-0 · Jul 13, 2014

My Maw and Paw had a hard scrabble non profit farm, but raised 5 younings'
If it hadn't been for them having jobs in town, they couldn't have afforded to have the farm.

IH2444 · Jul 13, 2014

(quoted from post at 17:24:20 07/13/14) My Maw and Paw had a hard scrabble non profit farm, but raised 5 younings'
If it hadn't been for them having jobs in town, they couldn't have afforded to have the farm.

Yes there are many of those as well.

rrlund · Jul 13, 2014

The milkman used to say,farming would be fun if you had the money to do it right.

Greg1959 · Jul 13, 2014

Bret- I worked quite a few years in a Not-for-profit Residential Treatment Facility for juvies (juvenile delinquents).

I knew the CFO personally. Each year he would lament on how he had to find a way to spend $14 million in funds(after expenditures) the facility had gotten from state and federal coffers so the facility could still be labeled as 'Not-for-profit.

They just needed to find a way to 'blow' that money to remain NFP> You wouldn't believe some of the stories I could tell.

oldtanker · Jul 13, 2014

(quoted from post at 14:27:51 07/13/14)

(quoted from post at 17:24:20 07/13/14) My Maw and Paw had a hard scrabble non profit farm, but raised 5 younings'
If it hadn't been for them having jobs in town, they couldn't have afforded to have the farm.

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Yes there are many of those as well.

Yep lot of em round here too. All sit a cry to who ever will listen while they drive around in new trucks ever couple of years. Hire a bunch of help, nice equipment, big newer homes. Kids through college or in college. All on that farming that isn't making any money.

Rick

Brown Swiss · Jul 13, 2014

I thought you use to be the milkman? LOL

Rollie NE PA · Jul 13, 2014

Shavertown, PA Northwest of Wilkes-Barre

rrlund · Jul 13, 2014

Well I was,but that was a long time ago.

Rollie NE PA · Jul 13, 2014

Here is there website.
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Northvale - PA · Jul 13, 2014

I have 4 acres of nice alfalfa / grass hay being rained on right now. I suppose that would be considered 'not for profit'.

donjr · Jul 13, 2014

Heck, I've been farming for fifty years. It's taken me that long to have finally reached the decision that my place has been non-profit for all these years. Just a difference of opinion betwixt me and Uncle in terminology........

mkirsch · Jul 14, 2014

Even better when, after crying poverty for months when they owe you a couple thousand dollars, they hand you a check with their account balance printed on it by mistake... and it's SEVEN FIGURES.

bison · Jul 14, 2014

(quoted from post at 19:18:41 07/13/14) I have 4 acres of nice alfalfa / grass hay being rained on right now. I suppose that would be considered 'not for profit'.

obby farming don't count

WellWorn · Jul 14, 2014

Hobby farming don't count

Bison, in my book, it isn't the size of the acreage, or the size of the critters or crops, or the size of the tractor (or horses) that makes a "hobby farm", it's the number of hours as a percentage that are spent working somewhere else. A person working 40 hours at a "regular job" might qualify as a hobby farmer, but not if he's also putting in another 70 hours a week on the farm taking care of crops and critters. He (or she) is a farmer with an outside job to support their (non-profit) farm. It's more where their heart is at, not where the money comes from.

Like the story about the farmer who won the lottery - he was asked what he was going to do with all the money, and he replied "Well, I guess I'll keep farming 'till it's gone."

flying H · Jul 14, 2014

Politics must be not for profit,,, Hilarity is broke with her two houses and 8mil. dollar book deal.
But WHAT DIFFERENCE, AT THIS TIME, DOES IT MAKE?

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