what an unusal year, I think we had spring in Febuary, now its 80 degrees in March, was drilling fence post in, and the ground in southern Indiana (up on the ridges) is dry 2 foot down. Im working on adding more fence, and more pasture ground, going to expand the goat herd. Ive sold all my cows, going to custom graze some for some neighbors, at these prices it dosent pencil out to own any cattle, make more money grazing other folks cattle. Pasture is a money maker at these grain prices, if most of your ground is hills and ridges, cause the boys with the nice river bottom ground cant afford to not till thier ground. I myself see some positives for farming just around the bend, but a person has to take stock of what he has, and maybe go against the grain. Especialy us younger and begining farmers. Most farmers and land owners are over 60, those of us under 40 are the minority. I was lucky and was able to purchase the 60 acre homeplace here from a friend at a below market price, the other 120 acres is leased land. I always wanted to farm, so I have always studied everything I could get my hands on the subject, and learned early on that to be a successful farmer, entering from a non farming family you can not be afraid to do things differently, look for areas of unmet need, if you follow the mainstream, you realy cant compete, those boys have been at it a long time, those who where not born in it got in during the 80s, when thing where selling for pennies on the dollar. So go against the grain think outside the box good luck
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