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North of London | Probably the category I am in.
Planted first crop totally on my own in 1965 fresh out of Ag school.
Father quit farming and got a job, offered me a chance to rent and take on his old equipment so I came home to farm rather than get a job.
So I have seed ordered and wheat planted for 2019 crop. My 55th crop if I did the math correctly
Just had coffee with 3 others yesterday that I used to have coffee with every week as we delivered pigs to assembly yard.
1 will be 90 in a few months, another is one year older than me in our mid 70ies and the youngster just turned 65.
90 year old has been share cropping his land for about 10 years the rest of us are still cropping our land although I have rented half mine out gives me about the same area of crops as the others.
Topic came up yesterday about quitting and none of us have plans to quit yet.
The 65 year old got out of pigs 10 years ago and took a job driving transport.
He has quit that job for the winter although they keep calling him back when the weather is nice to 'just take a load' that day.
The rest of us quit pigs a couple years after him.
So we are all just finding it easier to just keep doing as long as we are physically able.
To the original post it is a let down to make a major change but you will soon develop a new routine and find things to keep you busy. | |
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Calling it quits
