Well, that's, I don't know, that's a pretty hard question. I'm looking
at two or three different things right now. The way our farm is now . .
. my cousin and I are both—well I've got two cousins back there, Kenny
and I are the same age. We've been back on the farm, you know, since we
got out of school in 73. And, we're, you know, we're wantin' more than
what we've got now. We're basically just a hired hand really, and, you
know, we've got more initiative and drive than, than our fathers have.
You know, they've got it made. They don't have any house payments or
anything like that.
(laughter) And, so you know, its looking at different things. Right now I'm
thinking about leasing a neighbor's
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on my own. I'm kicking it around and I'll probably make a decision this
week I guess.
But, you know our fathers, we got a situation on our farm now, and its
hard, its on every farm, is how do you get the farm down to the next
generation? Our fathers don't want to quit, and I don't want them to
quit, you know they've been doing this all their life, and I don't think
they ought to up and quit, because uh, . . .
But there again, I hope when I get to be forty five or fifty, if I
can—and my son wants it—I hope I can turn it over to him in a way that I
can still be involved in it. You know if I want to go off for a week and
go bird hunting in Mexico or somewhere, if I'm able to do it
financially, I'd like to be able to do it. Or if I could go back down
here in the woods and go squirrel huntin' you know, when they're busy
combining corn. You know I'd like to be able to do that.
But, you know we're facing that situation here, and it's on every farm
it's one of the hardest things to do, and, it's, . . . it's tough you
know. I've got a neighbor that's got kids that are not interested in the
farm whatso-ever, and he's in bad health, and he's wanting to get out.
And, I'm thinking really seriously about, leasing his farm and buying
his cows. He's made me a, you know, a pretty good offer, and . . . .