Northern Rancher
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I've been getting alot of company the last while and of course the main topic is the state of farming and ranching-these guys are all successful in agriculture but most of them are questioning the whole deal. Everybody is running outfits that arebigger than their father's ever imagined most are a single enterprise-all cows or all grain and everyone is unhappy about their exposure financially. This might be heresy but we might see the day where farms and ranches shrink in size-someone works off farm-most do now anyway up here and the whole bigger is better refrain falls by the wayside. I know myself that for us to expand to include the kids we'd have to eliminate some of the neighbors-maybe we're better off divvying up what we already have. Megan is about to graduate into a pretty secure well paying job-she wants to buy some ground-with her off farm income she can eliminate the banker more or less is she doesn't get too big. I'm not sure what the answer is but laying around here bored all the time gives a person lots of time to think.