That,s a good one RC,thank you very much.This is farming country here,a lot of the boys are looking over their shoulders right now. You got to live it to understand what Mellencamp,s saying!
Dad and I knew an old guy bought an old farm we were on at times due to a relationship of Dads...
Third generation were buttheads who defaulted on it. From thier adolescence they had a bad attitude.. Messed with Dad's hunting. Told anyone not in the immediate family they were not family ect. Folks that could have saved the farm at one time.
Always thought of what I'd tell them when seeing them again.
One showed up at Dad's funeral and about the first thing he said was they were $@# holes back then.
I just said they were young. (Not the time and place to get riled at.)
Those farms I worked in my youth might be gone.
And buying one today is a lot of work and money to not get paid unless you produce just right.
Corporate farms step on a lot of ground. And farm far different. With money the goal. My opinion is the product can certainly vary in quality and how it's raised.
Today I can't hardly stand commercial pork. And know that my last hogs at 35 cents a pound matched market price. But were superior way back then already.
Today commercial pork tastes "green". And doesn't even digest well.
Either the fat is garbage due to diet , or a sow in heat gets mixed in and taints the rest. So it's the diet. And likely partly the breed.
But to bet hundreds of thousands in investments on rain?
No thanks. I can't gamble that.
Much as I prefer scratching in the dirt to plastic dirt that earned me money.
A couple hundred acres =$$$.
A couple decent tractors? $$$.
Barn? $$
Silo$$$
And we're just getting started.
Maybe we'll get a check late fall. Maybe not.
Meanwhile....
