My dad just has an acrege, 10 acres. Sits on top of a clay hill with woods surrounding the back 3/4 so trying corn or soybeans will just result in fat deer. My origional plan was to raise hogs on pasture or in deep bedded systems, with corn and hay on the side. I've looked into the organic side of production as well. My biggest problem is having no access to any land, and next would be little money. My aunt's husband's mother has a farm in ne Iowa I was trying to get onto last year. Start with renting the house and since all the building are sitting empty or full of machinery, work towards renting out the barn for the hogs and a little piece of the land. Found out they rent all the land to his cousin and his sister is only interested in how much she can get out of the place once their mother passes. I'm still working on that place but doesn't sound promising.
The company I'm going to drive for, I haven't heard anything bad about, everyone seems to have good thinbgs to say. I'm hoping while I'm out there I can say up a few dollars cuz I can live pretty cheaply on the road. I only plan on driving OTR for year or two to get some t/t experience than I can see what's available localy. I've been driving heavy trucks in the winter for past couple years, so I do know you need patience and to time the stop lights on the hills. I agree we do need more good drivers out there, I'm allmost 23 with a clean MVR and do what I can to keep it that way.
I've been around both lines of work and enjoy both alot. Thanks everyone for the advise and words of encouragement.
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Today's Featured Article - A Lifetime of David Brown - by Samuel Kennedy. I was born in 1950 and reared on my family�s 100 acre farm. It was a fairly typical Northern Ireland farm where the main enterprise was dairying but some pigs, poultry and sheep were also kept. Potatoes were grown for sale and oats were grown to be used for cattle and horse feeding. Up to about 1958 the dairy cows were fed hay with some turnips and after that grass silage was the main winter feed. That same year was the last in which flax was grown on the farm. Flax provided the fibre which w
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