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| Agree completely and the roadmap is already laid out in hogs as you said. We are already at the tipping point where the big guys are going to explode and the sub-2000 acre guys are going to stagnate and shrink. I honestly believe in 25 years there will be a few farming corporations running in each county with a handful of guys holding out on a few hundred acres of owned land basically for the fun of it. The land transfer that happens when the boomers start dying in the next decade will not be going into the hands of young guys getting started.
The opportunity in farming simply doesn't exist anymore, or what little does is so financially unreachable it's not doable.
That millennial (gen xer really) probably has the right to be upset. It's a common story around here that Tom, Dick, or Harry got their start farming in the 70s because the neighbor retired at 60 and offered the farm to him. Then a few other neighbors did the same over the next few years and he had a nice start. That's not a common story anymore. Farm until you're dead or might as well be, then put the whole farm out for sealed bid or kids send it to auction. Nothing illegal about it, free country and all that, just understand the problem that's being perpetuated by this behavior. | |
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