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How many people have an off farm job to support the farm?
Is the off Farm job mainly for health insurance?
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Yep. Work as a mechanic out of my shop and haul corn and hay for neighbors and whatever else I can for extra money.
Yes I have a winter off farm job that supplement our income, as most farmers know our farm income is not realized until harvest in mid Fall.
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I work off farm full time in summer there is no time for anything. I love to farm so I make it work
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We are due for a correction. The land cannot sustain these high values with negative returns.
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Samething here one person is offering way more then what it's worth. I bought 1section lest year and now we are struggling to make the paym...
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I use to work full-time, and two part time jobs my wife works full-time just to make farming work. Then my dad had a stroke. I left my job...
MoreIs the second job for the wife off the farm or is the second job another job for the wife off the farm?
"It's a poor farmer who can't get his wife a second job". Quote by **************.
I think most of us get jobs off the farm to get away from the farm.
I work full time off the farm for insurance wife takes care of the our one year old because her job would not cover the cost of daycare
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MoreWife and I both have part time jobs off the farm. We also farm full time. No free time whatsoever. We changed health insurance providers ...
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