Yes, they have to be bigger just to survive. It costs basically the same to buy a 50- or 60-foot air seeder as it does to buy a 30-foot air seeder. You might as well be bigger and rolling. We've seen it on our farm, where we're medium sized. We saw it where we were large sized and now we're back to a small size. Each of them has its own set of problems, but I'd rather deal with the problems of being big because they're more management problems. Then you have some economies of scale. This doesn't mean they're big multinational corporations. They're just farming units.
When I was there I had me, two brothers, my dad, and an uncle—his kids were too young to really be part of the outfit. So there were a lot of us there. To have this simple little old mom and pop with the chicken barn, we can leave that in the 1950s. We don't need to stay there.
Farming has to be a business and there has to be some training. We have to change the mindset of a generation here. I think the younger generation—younger than me—coming in understand that maybe better than the 80-year-old guys who are on their way out. That generation saw the horse age go to a tractor driving itself across the field. It's a lot in the mentality of it.
It even comes into the mentality of encouraging young people to get into it. I've even taken the flak, a little bit of “You ended up doing that? Why didn't you go and do something else?” You have to justify why you did it, and you shouldn't have to do that.