Re: Re: Re: Query To Hal/WA Re Grass Burning.

Posted by Hal/WA on April 10, 2003 at 17:33:03 from (208.8.194.10):

In Reply to: Re: Re: Query To Hal/WA Re Grass Burning. posted by Deas Plant. on April 10, 2003 at 05:00:59:

Things change. I live on a corner of the same property that I grew up on. When my parents bought the land in the 50's they planned on subdividing it and selling it off to help fund their retirement. We worked hard on our 160 acre hay and cattle ranch and turned a profit most years. My work paid for much of my education past high school and my parents had a relatively affluent retirement and travelled the world. But what was a working cattle ranch now has 9 families living on it and I don't think there are any cattle at all at this time. There are some horses, but their owners all buy their hay. The former hayland is now just pasture and some of it is very weedy. I hope to get set up to have a couple of feeder calves to eat down the grass, and I am accumulating the machinery to put up a little hay, but it probably won't happen this year. I am now retired, but worked in town for a career at a very intensive, high pressure job. It left little time to fool with farming.

I also live in the same school district from which I graduated in the 60's. At that time, I would estimate that at least 2/3 of the families in the school system made their living fully or partly in agriculture or related businesses. Future Farmers of America was the second largest organization in the school (only behind the letterman's club). Today the FFA is a small club of 10 to 15 members (and a large number of them are female, where only males were involved in the 60's). I would estimate that less than 10% of the families in the school district are involved in agriculture, directly or indirectly, today (not counting the families that have a horse or two).

I read the book: Gone With The Wind when I was a kid. I now have a better understanding of what they were referring to in terms of the changes that were thrust upon the people of the South. Things change, and not always for the better. I have to accept that fact, but I don't have to like it. I especially don't like changes that seem irrational and ill-conceived. The enviroNazis are in control and the general population has let it happen.

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