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SW WI | The return on time and investment is pathetic for a lot of us. Sure there are guys that will say they’re making money...maybe they are everyone has a different situation. An off farm job that provides health insurance and even a modest retirement package.....I really don’t think the guys saying they’re making money can understand that comparing the time put in on the job, let alone thinking and worrying about “the farm”.
The grass is always greener on the other side, guys who work off can’t wait until hopefully their situation changes and they can farm full time.
I was a teenager in the 80’s so a lot of the farm struggles fell on me at that time. The last year with low prices just keeping on, I started to feel a lot of stress. After that many years (and I know guys have been at it longer than that) it just feels like the life is sucked out of you. So my wife and I made some significant changes (downsize) forget about renting, have a little off farm income. We feel the future just got a little brighter. | |
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