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Katharine Butler's avatar

Straight-forward information - always the best and most helpful. Beautiful pics!!

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Jeremy Grenemyer's avatar

You call it a snake. I call it a nope-rope.

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Jim Knudsen's avatar

I liked your post and agree that there needs to be a better and more sustainable farming solution than corn and soybeans. I agree that keeping debt down in the ways you described are good ideas. It seems the elephant in the room is the high cost of land. The methods you’ve described seem to require ownership, since there are long run payoffs you wouldn’t receive if you were renting and the owner wouldn’t rerent. It seems like mortgage debt would still be a significant pressure, even if you had no operating debt.

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Suzan Erem's avatar

You're absolutely right unless people had long-term leases. Up to 20 years is permitted in Iowa.

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