I have to wonder why the sheep are not making a profit. Around here sheep almost always pencil out better than cows, for the guys that know how and are willing to do the work. Also, and this may be a regional thing but 150 acres seems small for full time. One of my neighbors grows 1600 arces of wheat part time, and he has a full time job as a firefighter on the west coast, but he knows the business well and seems to have enough money to roll with the punches. Also it seeems you are not only thinking about farming and also starting a ag repair business, so 2 things I suspect you never have done before. Only you get to decide but I would not leave a good job 1/2 the way through my working years to go into such risk. Nothing sadder than a 50 year old that has mortgaged away the farm, having to start all over again.
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Today's Featured Article - Harvestin Hay: The Early Years (Part 2) - by Pat Browning. The summer of 1950 was the start of a new era in farming for our family. I was thirteen, and Kathy (my oldest sister) was seven. At this age, I believed tractor farming was the only way, hot stuff -- and given a chance I probably would have used the tractor, Dad's first, a 1936 Model "A" John Deere, to go bring in the cows! And I think Dad was ready for some automation too. And so it was that we acquired a good, used J. I. Case, wire tie hay baler. In addition to a person to drive th
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