SDfarmer75 - 4/16/2014 17:57
1586 - 4/16/2014 18:36
Since you don't like how your son does things would you call me when you retire and rent me the farm for $150 acre? Didn't think so. You would want $300 if the market is paying it. Go try to expand and see how far $1XX or $2XX acre rent gets you. Some of us weren't born with a silver spoon in our mouth and haven't had a chance to ever buy a piece. Go ask a 30 some year old farmer if they could even afford the down payment on $10,000 acre ground.
The guy started with 35 acres
(owned or rented?
) and made it through the 80's farm crisis, now has a 1000 acres and you want to berate him?
So what, lots of others did it too. The house I live in was built by my G-G-Grandfather that came over here with nothing and bought about 660 acres before he died in 1949. My Grandfather had to buy it in the early 60's and added on in 1983 also. Guess what if I want to keep any of it I have to buy it too. Not going to happen at $10K acre. Maybe his son appreciates the highest yielding seed and doesn't settle for what works. Maybe that 2630 display records the yields and can see what does the best at the end of the year. Sometimes what a 70 year old doesn't think will lead them to profit because technology has left them behind actually will.
My son has a lot to Learn
