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Strathcona, mn | I am a first generation farmer. I will give this advice, it has helped me immensely. First, make do with others scraps.... Figure out a way to make a piece of ground profitable that no one else wants to rent. I started haying meadows that had never been hayed before, found a market for it and worked my but off. Second, if you have a chance at two pieces of equipment and they are both the same quality buy the bigger one. It is easier to walk into an open door when you are over equipped rather than under equipped. Don't be color blind.... Look outside your area of expertise to see what works efficiently. "Rome wasn't built overnight". And last an old farmer told me when I first started "you have to live life like a turtle, you have to stick your neck out to get somewhere". I now farm 400 miles from where I grew up but I get to farm full time for a living, sacrifices earlier have paid back huge dividends. It isn't always about working harder but smarter and harder than you counterparts that'll get you ahead.
Edited by 1156versatile 4/5/2013 15:59
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? How can a young farmer start out now days?
