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NWMO | I don’t think a guy has to be stuck in a monoculture or bi-culture farming system. Anyone can plant anything they see fit as long as you have a marketable product at the end and a way to sell it then you could grow anything. I think that we farm the way we do now because of how the world has changed since the late 70’s/early 80’s.
According to my grandpa, back then you could grow a couple hundred hogs a year and make good money on them. Folks raised and butchered their own livestock on the farm and sold the excess. There was a greater need for grassland/footage when you had more livestock. Heck, we farm in multiple counties but our main county is 90% row crop and less than 4% pastureland, which makes small-medium scale livestock a difficult proposition to get into, but all things can change if a guys willing to try new things.
As for crop insurance, it’s a necessary part of the operation in my eyes. I can’t predict drought, or floods, wind storms etc. The last thing a guy wants us to be $1M or more into a crop just to lose it all too an August hail storm without at least recovering your input costs. Crop insurance isn’t there to make you a profit, it’s there to at least break you even when disaster strikes, and that’s a “when”, not and “if”. Then you get to live to farm another day instead of calling the local auction company | |
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On crop insurance..
