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[bob ford <bobford79 AT yahoo.com>]

Well every young person has to follow their own star, but I believe the days 
of a ,even, advanced degrees necessarily providing above-average security are 
dwindling.  Somebody's kids are going to have to be farmers.  We don't all 
have to hire a lawyer (yet).  We do all have to eat.

I don't know the gender or age of your children (and it isn't my business), 
but teenagers can be too easily influenced by media, and media distorts 
realty and even flat-out lies (As you well know).

My brother's kids don't listen to anything I tell them (over the phone).  
They simply follow the path that their friends follow, that the media has 
encouraged.  

Our young people now are all so terribly conformist in their pretentions of 
non-conformity.  Maybe that is the way it always was, and I was too busy 
doing my own thing to get earrings or spiked hair or tattoes (not that there 
is anything wrong with that, you probably have eighteen of each; now that 
I've made that comment).

  I remember when my two baby brothers got tattoes of their girlfriends 
names.  My daddy almost exploded, and, of course, neither of them even lives 
in the same state with the girls, today.

I can't do like James and buy tons of grain, now, with a strong dollar and 
weak commodity prices.  'would cost too much to store and eventually 
transport.  What I have considered , though, other than trying to trade a 
little in commodity etfs; is buying quantities of good quality seed, while 
prices are low, and the dollar is strong.  Is that possible?  Will seed keep 
well?  Where would you buy the best quality seed, that are not in the little 
"gurney" packages?  

Maybe I'm being ridiculous ......bobford


--- On Sat, 10/25/08, Lynn Wigglesworth <lynnw1366 AT hotmail.com> wrote:

> > And, for people who have children about to take out
> huge student loan debt to attend  college to learn about
> 'business' or 'law', there are alternatives.. This country, and the world  
> needs young, smart farmers. ...bobf

> Haha. I keep telling my kids that, but they want to be able
> to earn a 
> living.
> 
> Lynn Wigglesworth