There is quite a series of articles today in the Gazette about wheat farming in Montana that is interesting.
Higher costs, lower prices dry up farm profits
Grain harvest a bitter pill as cost of production rises
Competition squeezes Montana's grain growers
Crop yields partly make up for cost of growing wheat
Around 10 years ago I gave up wheat farming because in my mind it was getting to be a bigger money loser every year and with the farm programs being cut I didn't see a way to make it work. These articles are pretty much saying the same thing.
I did find the advice in one article about expanding or dying interesting. I've been saying the same thing for years.
"Whether you like it or not, in farming or ranching, under our current economic conditions, if you ain't growing, your dying."
I wish there was another way around it but that is the way I see it. What I am going to do in the long run I'm not sure but I always keep the above thought in mind.
Farming looks mighty easy when your plow is a pencil, and you're a thousand miles from the corn field. Dwight D. Eisenhower
Sunday, August 28. 2005
Small Grain Farming
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