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katrina
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Joined: 14 Feb 2005
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Location: East north east of Soapweed
PostPosted: Tue Sep 20, 2005 12:07 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Good One NR............ Very Happy Very Happy Very Happy Very Happy
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Murgen
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Joined: 12 Feb 2005
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Location: Ontario
PostPosted: Tue Sep 20, 2005 12:36 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
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I always thought proctology was about as dead end a job as you could find-then I became an A'I tech.




Well, it's a $hitty job, but someone's got to do it!! I've bred somewhere between 30,000 and 35,000 cows in the last 7 years, there's a lot worse jobs!
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Northern Rancher
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Joined: 10 Feb 2005
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Location: saskatchewan
PostPosted: Tue Sep 20, 2005 2:04 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
It pays good I'll admit that.
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ranchwife
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Joined: 10 Feb 2005
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Location: ennis, montana
PostPosted: Tue Sep 20, 2005 2:41 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
katrina wrote:
With today"s effienciey(sp) we have produced ourselves out of buisness. Today at the elevator corn is $1.60... Pencil that into todays cost......
Try $3.90 wheat with 3.00 fuel.........
Price machinery....
Get some work done on your vehicle in town or go to the doctor, dentist any of that and who's on the short end of the stick.
Does your town appreciate you shopping in there stores???
Bottom line..............
IS THIS THE LIFE YOU WOULD WANT FOR YOUR KIDS??????


we see this all too often in our area......kids born and raised on the family farm/ranch..good hard working kids who leave the farm for college---and never look back!! They say "my mom and dad worked 20 hour days all thier lives for WHAT?? no pension...no insurance....no vacation..etc...." This next generation wants 9-5, Monday-Friday, weekends and holidays off with full health insurance and a nice retirement package!! Sad to see what is happening to all the mom'n'pop places around here that have been going for generations...going to auction, now!! Crying or Very sad Crying or Very sad
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Mudhen
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Joined: 09 Jun 2005
Posts: 123
Location: SW Oklahoma
PostPosted: Tue Sep 20, 2005 3:36 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
I hate to admit it Mad but I work here in an office on designing of oil field equipment to pay all the bills. If I could see me paying all my bills and put food on the table along with keeping my family health then I wouldn’t be here that’s for sure. But a man’s got to do what a man’s got to do.
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TXTibbs
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Joined: 09 Apr 2005
Posts: 1079
Location: South Central Texas, former South Dakotan
PostPosted: Thu Sep 22, 2005 11:29 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
ranchwife wrote:
katrina wrote:
With today"s effienciey(sp) we have produced ourselves out of buisness. Today at the elevator corn is $1.60... Pencil that into todays cost......
Try $3.90 wheat with 3.00 fuel.........
Price machinery....
Get some work done on your vehicle in town or go to the doctor, dentist any of that and who's on the short end of the stick.
Does your town appreciate you shopping in there stores???
Bottom line..............
IS THIS THE LIFE YOU WOULD WANT FOR YOUR KIDS??????


we see this all too often in our area......kids born and raised on the family farm/ranch..good hard working kids who leave the farm for college---and never look back!! They say "my mom and dad worked 20 hour days all thier lives for WHAT?? no pension...no insurance....no vacation..etc...." This next generation wants 9-5, Monday-Friday, weekends and holidays off with full health insurance and a nice retirement package!! Sad to see what is happening to all the mom'n'pop places around here that have been going for generations...going to auction, now!! Crying or Very sad Crying or Very sad



yeah but the auction price is way to high for anyone wanting to get started to get started....its insane
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jigs
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Joined: 17 Mar 2005
Posts: 4807
Location: KANSAS
PostPosted: Thu Sep 22, 2005 8:32 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
the kids leaving has a lot of factors.
and these factors vary in different situations, but the pesamistic attitude of todays ag producer leaves a very negative ring in a kids ear.

with unions getting $25 per hour PLUS benefits and retirement and the school system pushing kids towards that life style it is an easy read on the future.

my kids are all Jr high and younger, but they know we have less, and do less than the other kids. BUT the big point I tell them is those kids blow a lot of money on junk and short term fun.....you take that money and buy sow, cows or ewes, you have a productive base.

when my 5th grader cut thistles for the neighbor this summer, he rat holed the money to buy lambs this fall. That one will stay on the farm.

I rambled on, I know, but the point is, are they leaving, or are we pushing them off the farm?????
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