Re: how does a yankee farmer make a living?
Lived a few years west of the Twin Cities on a 5 acre hobby farm.<br /><br />MN summers may be short, but I had the best crops of veggies of anywhere I ever gardened. <br /><br />Long hours of sunlight and glacial soils (my garden had been a pigsty for about 80 years) made it very easy to look like some kind of horticultural expert. The only place I gardened better soil was in Hawaii.<br /><br />Real small family farmer neighbors worked hard, but made fine crops of corn, soybeans, alfalfa, hay, apples and kitchen crops. One neighbor did 90% of his work with with a brace of magnificent Percheron horses. They didn't make a lot of money, but they had a rich life.
i know its pretty offkey for someone to ask this, but i just saw a report that minnesota produces a huge amt of soybean & corn<br /> http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20050928/sc_afp/usenergyoilgas_050928134802 <br />and i just can't fit it into my head how someone in the upper states can possibly get something above half grown, much less bring it to harvest.<br /> 
