Will add just one more tidbit...around our small town were many, many farms in the late '60,s and '70,s. All hard working smart people. Most with a few kids helping out. Ours was one of them with 4 boys helping out. Still, we would come home on the bus and see the few "big" farms with their brand new JD 4020,s and 1206 Farmalls etc and farms in between struggling with marginal used tractors. I asked Dad one day, after he explained why we couldn't afford a loader tractor for manure control, how the heck are they doing it? What are we doing wrong? He smiled and said, next time you go by those farms on the bus, look out back in the back of their fields and come home and tell me what you see. Well , every one of those so called successful farms with the new machinery and cars and 3 Harvestore silos had at least 2 or more oil wells pumping away. He simply explained the difference between us " just making it" and them " making the hay with a safety net". Many a farmer went to his grave trying to compete with these people for crop land and equipment at auctions and even livestock at auction. There are some things that pure will and positivity and hard work just can't overcome. This happens in any business, not just farming. In our town, one of the biggest , most successful auto body /collision repair shops that could out advertise and undercut everyone elses prices and still had a marginal reputation for quality , finally showed their cards when arrested and put in prison for drug dealing...right out of their shop office to boot. How many small guys cut and run because they couldn't compete? Many times , doing everything "right" just doesn't cut it competing with this.
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