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Originally Posted by baselle
Hmm. What do your farming neighbors (not your Joneses'  ) use? |
In all honesty I only know of two farmers that have recently purchased "real" farms, one is an Amish family that went together and purchased a friend of ours mothers farm to start up a huge produce farm, they paid over 300,000 for the 80 acres and house that needed work. The second person is a good friend of ours that even though he inherited 1/3rd of his bosses farm couldn't afford to purchase it, the farmers "kids" that inhereted the other 2/3rds insisted in auctioning it to get the highest price for it, it went to a developer and that was the end of one of the most respected 3rd generation dairy farms in our area. Our friend took his part and purchased a much smaller farm, luckily he inherited the dairy cows. (Don't EVEN ask how much a good start up herd costs!)
All of the other local sales end up being developers that are cutting up the land and building trophy houses for "citiots" that want to live in the country but not see/smell/hear the reality of farming.
And our neighbors the Jones? LOL, we can't figure them out but they ARE a source of amusement to us when we're not KICKING THEM OFF OF OUR LAND!
KJ