Posted on 01/12/2018 6:35:37 AM PST by frogjerk
Thanks for the observations.
Very well said.
There are hundreds of freepers that pretend to know about modern US agriculture. Just start a discussion involving the carbon cycle, GMOs, pesticide use and they come out of the urban woodwork as experts.
I support people who want to farm, but it involves a lot of very difficult physical labor and technological knowledge. It ain’t what they think it is.
You kicked that square in the nuts, millennials are always drawn to the next shiny buzzword like a fly to a turd. You should have added "old timey" in your list as well.
God bless your grandma—COPD is an occupational hazard for farmers. Hard work is often healthful work. My grandfather did the same and lived to near 96. My aunt on the other side of the family did the same and lived to 106. Work hard and eat healthy. People pay to work hard in a gym. I have offered many the chance to workout hard hauling hay for free. I’ve had one taker and he didn’t last long.
"Share The Land"
by The Guess Who
Maybe I'll be there to shake your hand
Maybe I'll be there to share the land
That they'll be givin' away
When we all live together,
We're talkin' 'bout together, now.....
Ping.
Good water?
Currently in Michigan.
You are going to have to clear the land of brush and scrub but there is plenty of good clean water.
But if you are looking for good weather you are not going to find it this side of glory. The weather always hates you.
“Artisan” should be banned from the dictionary. With these freaks, everything they do is “artisan.” Wow, who knew I’ve been making “artisan” bread all my life when I thought it was merely putting food on the dinner table.
Mike Tyson is starting a 40 acre marijuana farm in CA.
Those WWII vets weren’t the little pansies this group is.
Yet the uniparty would have us believe that we especially need to import new, low-skilled labor to work in agriculture.
Even the GOP House opening offer DACA bill created an entirely new million-worker-per-year special visa for the ag industry.
Not at all! What we need is for those farmers who creatively carve out work opportunities for college students to work and study, presumably via online means, at their locations such that they can graduate without debt and with having learned how to actually work to thrive. And those who don’t, can sell out to the more innovative ones. Or to the millennials who really take to ag as a career.
But no, instead we’ve had illegals grotesquely warping how those jobs are designed and filled, in a rush to a third-world bottom.
Enough! Time to turn it around!
In Texas, horrible nonirrigated land that only grows rattlesnakes starts at $6-8K/acre. Add in building a house, fencing, sewer, utilities, drilling a well or connecting to high priced community water and then all the outbuildings, equipment and livestock, etc. and you’re broke before you begin.
Bingo
The young people are not buying land that is ready to go, they are buying land that might, at most, have a hunting cabin on it.
Many of them rent extra acreage at $50 per acre a year.
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