Wheelersburg and Lancaster, Ohio | About 15 years ago grain farming was going well for me. My kids were real young and I have a good off the farm job. I had about 40 beef cows. Sold all but eight of them. Realized it wasn’t much less work. Partly because it’s had to get custom hay work done here and even harder to buy good, consistent quality hay. I started buy bulls every two years, keeping a lot of gift, and built my herd back up to about 40 head. Kids are teenagers now. Neither want to farm. I live away from the main farm where I rented a bunch of surrounding ground. My three biggest and best rental farms changed hands and I couldn’t get along with the new landlords. I gave up grain farming. And am enjoying the lack of stress that brought. If I owned better crop ground I’d probably got rid of cows and stuck with grain farming. Everything I own is steep hillside ground. |