Market Farming

["cjmaness AT juno.com" <cjmaness AT juno.com>]

Fun? I just spent the last week crawling on hands and knees planting 6000 
Cole crops by hand, because the transplanter wouldn't work. Then I get to sit 
back and watch 4 inches of rain nearly drown all that hard work. In the mean 
time, the rabbits sneak out every time I turn my back and are eating what is 
left. I couldn't spray the usual hot pepper spray because it wouldn't quit 
raining. Fun? No! This is why it is so hard to make a profit. Add in the fact 
that we started this farm with a troy bilt tiller and a riding lawn mower. We 
didn't inherit the land, or equipment. We bought the tractors. The cooler. 
The cultivators. Every cent we have made over the last five years has gone 
right back into the farm. Profitable? We gross 5000 an acre. That takes an 
incredible amount of hard work! And good management skills. When one crop is 
finished, we have to be ready to replant with something else. 
Add in that one has to become an electrician, plumber, carpenter, soil 
scientist, tractor mechanic, etc... and, well you get the picture. Not easy. 
We do this because we love it. We dreamed of this life for 20 years and now 
we are here. We will make it work. Hard work and determination always pay 
off. Sure we have to deal with the customers who don't bat an eye at paying 
two dollars for a candy bar and a coke and who flip out over paying that for 
a head of broccoli but... they will learn.
Carla
Perkins, OK 
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