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On Apr 18, 9:11*am, "Tom Littleton" wrote:
"DaveS" wrote in message

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1. I am not wealthy. I am not a farmer; I am a farm-groupie.

does this entail hanging around farmers and trying to get their attentions?

Sustaining and growing

the productivity and income flows from an ag or forest based "family
fortune" is not a walk in the park. Without some love for the land,
respect for the natural processes and people who make it happen, and a
willingness to work, a family cannot hold onto these kinds of assets

over the generations.

I think you're somewhat overdramatizing here, at least in my experience.

Well, yeah.....but there's also generalizing, romanticizing,
aggrandizing, self-congratulating.

No argument with the rest of your premise, however.

Yep. That's all true....sometimes.

* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *Tom

giles.
who has known some farmers....and found them to be generally much like
folks.

On Apr 18, 6:28*pm, Giles wrote:
On Apr 18, 9:11*am, "Tom Littleton" wrote:





"DaveS" wrote in message

...

1. I am not wealthy. I am not a farmer; I am a farm-groupie.

does this entail hanging around farmers and trying to get their attentions?

Sustaining and growing

the productivity and income flows from an ag or forest based "family
fortune" is not a walk in the park. Without some love for the land,
respect for the natural processes and people who make it happen, and a
willingness to work, a family cannot hold onto these kinds of assets

over the generations.

I think you're somewhat overdramatizing here, at least in my experience..

Well, yeah.....but there's also generalizing, romanticizing,
aggrandizing, self-congratulating.

No argument with the rest of your premise, however.

Yep. *That's all true....sometimes.

* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *Tom

giles.
who has known some farmers....and found them to be generally much like
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I am not so sure. I think awareness of the natural world is pretty low
in much of the USA pop. Like that old First Nations song said, "
Tomorrow the Sun could rise in the West and many would not notice." Or
something like that. Here, even in the PNW folk disconnect - and for
months a year go to work in the dark and come home in the dark. In the
consulting biz, especially on-the-road, I was often still working at
10pm, What a waste. Spring was a blink, a minute later it was October
time for a crammed "summer" break. Weather had almost no impact except
for the occasional flight delay, "Oh, is it snowing?" Neat. You going
to eat those peanuts?" (Another 4 hours in the air, late taxi, catch
the last boat, home by when?)

From what I can see farmers could not do what they do without a high
sensitivity to the weather, at a level of detail that normal "folk"
just do not require. Big diffs I think.

Dave
Who had a 12 year old girl farm kid explain to me that the reason they
were baling at 2am nite before was because the moisture level of those
little leaves on the cut alfalfa was just right so they would not
flake off and therefore reduce the protein assay. Too moist or a
little rain before the bales get picked up (700 lb per) and they can
combust. So I think farm kids may be tons different too. Did you get
my mailing address?