Small Grain Farming

There is quite a series of articles today in the Gazette about wheat farming in Montana that is interesting.<br />n<br />n<a href="http://www.billingsgazette.com//index.php?id=1&display=rednews/2005/08/28/build/state/25-farm-profits.inc">Higher costs, lower prices dry up farm profits</a><br />n<br />n<a href="http://www.billingsgazette.com//index.php?id=1&display=rednews/2005/08/28/build/state/50-grain-harvest.inc">Grain harvest a bitter pill as cost of production rises</a><br />n<br />n<a href="http://www.billingsgazette.com//index.php?id=1&display=rednews/2005/08/28/build/business/26-grain.inc">Competition squeezes Montana's grain growers</a><br />n<br />n<a href="http://www.billingsgazette.com//index.php?id=1&display=rednews/2005/08/28/build/business/27-wheat.inc">Crop yields partly make up for cost of growing wheat</a><br />n<br />nAround 10 years ago I gave up wheat farming because in my mind it was getting to be a bigger money loser every year and with the farm programs being cut I didn't see a way to make it work. These articles are pretty much saying the same thing.<br />n<br />nI did find the advice in one article about expanding or dying interesting. I've been saying the same thing for years. <br />n<br />n"Whether you like it or not, in farming or ranching, under our current economic conditions, if you ain't growing, your dying."<br />n<br />nI wish there was another way around it but that is the way I see it. What I am going to do in the long run I'm not sure but I always keep the above thought in mind.<br />n<br />n<b>Farming looks mighty easy when your plow is a pencil, and you're a thousand miles from the corn field. Dwight D. Eisenhower</b>