I agree 100%. None of my friends are making $25 an hour either, thats why I said things are all different than they were when Jack started out. No matter how hard you work, starting from scratch in ag today is almost impossible without putting a great deal at risk. I'm 32 and find it hard to believe in ten years I'll have more ground than I currently do, 22 acres, tillable but in pasture. If my wife lost her job today, we would be on the street in a year, I bought more farm than I could afford but its a good thing I did with the way farmland values are going. Lately the price of land goes up faster than you can save money for it. All but one of the other young farmers I know have family in it. The one that doesn't had both parents die of cancer within a year of each other he was 25 ish, not the best way to aquire ground in my opinion. I have a wife and three small kids, I'm not willing to take food out of their mouth so I can be a big farmer for a year only to lose it all when corn drops to $4 bu. Nate
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Today's Featured Article - Dad's Old Silver King and Joe Capalco - by Woody E. Diehl. My father, Charles Diehl, grew up in the Elsworth, Ohio area during the Depression on a small working farm. I never saw the place, nor was I around during his early years. What I know about those hard times comes from listening to Dad and his old pals reminisce from time to time. One of the old timers that would sit with Dad and chew the fat about the 'good ole days' was Joe Capalco. Joe wasn't like most of my Dad's friends. He rarely worked that we knew of. Always had plenty of time
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