On 09/15/2010 08:30 AM, dave wrote:
Day Brown wrote:


Back before agribusiness replaced family farms, it was like this all
over rural America. The land here is too steep for the large contiguous
tracts agribusiness likes.

I sold my farm back in 1986.
I read the average farmer is now 61 years old. Recently, I noted an old
man with two young helpers he was apparently teaching how to string
fence. Afterwards, I noticed its a real professional job.

But sometimes ponder the fact that both young helpers were women. Women
run the forklifts and log skidders at the saw mill. I see them behind
the parts counter, and they know where the hydraulic fluid is, or what a
combination wrench looks like.

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