Agree!

Also........did Mike Stamp have a 5 year plan??


      ..........a 2 year plan??


      ..........any plan???


I've dabbled in trying to put numbers on paper and make them work for me, but it only cost me a lot of time I could have been doing something more productive....

.....and quite frankly annoyed the heck out of me. The more exact I tried to be, the further away from the truth I seemed to get.

Do  I work any scenarios out? Sure! Mainly new landlords or land purchases....large price swings in inputs/grains (like 2008). But I believe it is easy to get lost in trying to constantly run break evens on a crop which is not even planted.

I have prepaid all my inputs for the '13 crop so I know what I have invested in the crop already, and I know what my running 10 year averages are for this farm, so it is not hard to figure out what price range I need.

And conversely it is not hard to know when I need to put the farm on a diet.