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Bourbon, Indiana | I can see what your saying and I totally agree "its your land" but for my case (and mine only) I do not feel like I'm entitled to ANY ground NONE!! but again, like I said earlier, Don't tell me (and this goes for any retireing farmer) that "we need to support our younger generation farmers" and then turn around and rent it to the 20000acre farmer 20 miles away. I guess thats what eats at my crawl, when they say one thing and do another. Another thing you mentioned was that us younger farmers cant afford to pay the rent the BTO's can, don't paint a picture for all of us young folk, I can count a number of times where we turned in bids that were higher than the tenant that won the bid. I'm not sure why that is, maybe they don't like us, maybe we do a poor job farming, maybe we have body odor, I dont know, but for myself I feel like I have to pay those top offers to even have a chance at growing my operation, and hope that word gets around. Just because were young does not mean we cant pay high rents just like the big guys. yes the 15000acre farmer MIGHT will be more secure but thats not always the case, usually they are for good reason.....their older than us, lol.. For the Landlord to feel more secure in renting to a larger farmer because the standard is "well he's in a better position because he's older, your a young gun yet and not as secure as so and so and I might not get paid" type of thinking is B.S. Even if the young farmer goes belly up the landlord more than likely still gets paid, and next year you find somebody else to farm the ground.
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bright future for young farmers
