Vicksburg MI 49097 | Minuteman Farmer - 11/20/2012 11:34
"The ambition for broad acres leads to poor farming, even with men of energy. I scarcely ever knew a mammoth farm to sustain itself; much less to return a profit upon the outlay. I have more than once known a man to spend a respectable fortune upon one; fail and leave it; and then some man of more modest aims, get a small fraction of the ground, and make a good living upon it. Mammoth farms are like tools or weapons, which are too heavy to be handled. Ere long they are thrown aside, at a great loss." Abraham Lincoln
I think it's one thing to farm 40,000 acres in Texas or in South Dakota, but in South West Michigan the fields are rather small and scattered between woods swamps and URBAN SPRAWL,, That's a lot of small fields .. in SW MI |
Beating a dead horse- Stamp Farms
