- Location
- Lorette Manitoba
Common situation here also. Kids get a great education paid for by the parents grafting and saving money from the farm. Kids take off to bigger and better paying easy jobs but when mum and dad want to retire the kids all circle like vultures thinking they can assume the farm for f all because they are doing it for the good of the family farm. Few years down the line parents are in an old folks home hearing how well the farm Sold Or worse still how the bitchy daughter in law has covered it with horses. .There's no way your children would want to come back and take over the farm when you retire?
Just curious as it seems from many of the threads on here, you're only worthy to take over if you're there from leaving school.
One thing I've noticed since living here is its very common for farming children to go off and have their own lives but then all get together and talk about the future when mum and dad want to step back. There's often at least one keen to have a go, money earned in their own career helps them set up. If no one wants to take it on the For Sale sign goes up.