I agree with you Dylan. My post was simply stating my opinion. However, in my case, our choices to change almost everything that the previous generations had done was not based on my own preferences, other than the one to be profitable. If we could have seen profit in the way we USED TO DO IT, I would have been happy to stay on a horse a few hours/day, calve in March, brand in July, sell in November and never really question why it's so dang hard to get by.

We looked at alot of options on how to make our land base profitable, from guiding/outfitting to organic veggies. We saw good potential in direct marketing and multi-species grazing, and it stayed fairly close to our old preferences of being on the farm, and gives us the opportunity to raise/home school our kids, grow our own food, and still have time to host visitors like you and that crazy loon from Meadow Lake. :wink: