Young man from right here at home was named FARM JOURNAL Top Producer of the Year. Award was presented today at the Chicago farm Journal award show. Jimmy Tosh started farming on his own in 1972, (as he says on credit) . Today they farm 17,000+ acres and this year produced 850,000 top hogs. Lot of pork for sure.. Just shows there are some folks making it farming. I am sure he fits the term BTO to some of you guys but I have know him since birth and he is as down to earth and straight forward as you will ever meet. Has two son that are both cut out of the same material . Kind of proud to have been part of his success. Sold him lots of equipment over the years.
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Sounds like a neat story . That is a lot of sausage for sure . I don?t care if he farms a million acres if he wants to it probably takes that many to keep the family on the farm and try to make a little money . I?d like to expand my operation enough I could just farm and run cows and not have to work every single side job I can to try and make money does that make me the devil ?
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I don't know if that makes me happy or sad.
You have to be really big in most cases to cash flow unless you have little or no debt. I love working for myself but doing it and not having much or anything to take home to show for it at the end of the month isn?t much fun either. A person can only buy groceries and pay the house mortgage on line of credit for so long.
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I am certain no one could call you "The Devil", You seem to "Work Like the Devil" though.
Some how I sense that you will reach your goal of running enough of your own cows and just farming your own place. A Good Friend once told me " Good things happen to those who are prepared " He was right. It looks like you stay Prepared. Dsmythe
I am certain no one could call you "The Devil", You seem to "Work Like the Devil" though.
Some how I sense that you will reach your goal of running enough of your own cows and just farming your own place. A Good Friend once told me " Good things happen to those who are prepared " He was right. It looks like you stay Prepared. Dsmythe
I agree completely with that too,it?s not my place to throw words of discouragement knowing very little. One thing I sometimes tell people is if someone wants something bad enough they usually find a way to make it happen. Being a BTO does not make a person evil,it?s usually a simple fact that there?s so little margin that you need a lot of product to have enough left over to cover all the monthly expenses and have something to live on.
So many believe all the BTO are evil , and it is easy to see why. This guy is real low keyed and yes he has bought some farms but most times it was from a man retiring or an operation that needed help. Lots of time he will buy the farm put up two hog houses and hire the previous owner to stay on and operate it. As with ever thing not perfect but all and all has been good for this county. The two boys coming on both have college educations but have grown up working right there. There feed mill offers a good market for all local corn. That mill has to produce a tractor trailer load of hog feed ever hour, takes a lot of grain for sure.
Has he been named or nominated Jerry? I see you posted this yesterday (Thursday). I thought the winner was going to be named this morning (Friday). I'm a day behind in watching Ag Day on line. I just watched Thursday's show a few minutes ago and saw the segment about the guy in ND who's raising cranberry beans. I saw the segment about Jimmy Tosh a few days ago.
One little caution about this award though,Mike Stamp won it a few years back and he,his wife and some of his associates are off to prison for all the things they pulled in order to look like such big fish in a small pond.
One little caution about this award though,Mike Stamp won it a few years back and he,his wife and some of his associates are off to prison for all the things they pulled in order to look like such big fish in a small pond.
Great to hear. I'll see it tomorrow morning when I'm on the elliptical then.
Those awards are best presented to older folks who've spent a lifetime building up to deserving it,and it looks like he has. The wife and I were Michigan Milk Producers Association District 5 Outstanding Young Dairy Couple in 1990. That got us a trip to Detroit for the statewide contest. Everybody was 35 or under. Seems like the state winners over the years have either gone to the top leadership roles in the association pretty quick or were completely out of business in a short time. Not many in the middle of the road. Some have the humility to be able to handle it,some have it go to their heads and they try to live up to expectations and get in over their heads.
Those awards are best presented to older folks who've spent a lifetime building up to deserving it,and it looks like he has. The wife and I were Michigan Milk Producers Association District 5 Outstanding Young Dairy Couple in 1990. That got us a trip to Detroit for the statewide contest. Everybody was 35 or under. Seems like the state winners over the years have either gone to the top leadership roles in the association pretty quick or were completely out of business in a short time. Not many in the middle of the road. Some have the humility to be able to handle it,some have it go to their heads and they try to live up to expectations and get in over their heads.
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