Re: Why does it have to be so hard?

Posted by kyhayman on December 04, 2006 at 19:38:51 from (64.12.116.74):

In Reply to: Why does it have to be so hard? posted by Youngfarmhand on December 04, 2006 at 18:22:47:

History tells a story that we dont acknowledge very often. Throughout history, the majority of the land has not been farmed by the people who own it. Thats always been the American dream, but it hasnt been the American reality. A few have been able to do it, those who didnt moved west and homesteaded. Between the speculators who got the water and the railroads it soon became a case again of people working the land for other owners. Even today, most of the bigger operators are doing it on rented land.

All of my really successful neighbors own less and a fourth of the land they farm.

I got started, it wasnt easy and you can too. Ive always had a second job for benefits and cash flow while I farmed. Thank goodness I did. Farming is dangerous. One of my neighbors had back surgery this spring, he had to sell his dairy cows to pay for it (no insurance), operation was 50 grand. You may have read I got hurt in a farm accident back in Oct, my doctor bills are over 95K and growing, and I was bedridden for 5 weeks. If I had depended on the farm to eat, I would have lost everything. Thankfully I have sick leave, and insurance. Thats let me hire out of the farm what work has had to be done. Plus here I am, perminantly stuck to a cane, at 39.

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• Re: Why does it have to be so hard? RickL 06:18:17 12/05/06 (0)

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