Yes.
It kind of hit a nerve when I heard you with regard to getting courses for better management. It's hard for me to tell a farmer, if they're always selling their product on a negative margin....
How much better can you be? It's almost impossible; you can be the best manager you want, but if you buy a farm as a young farmer, and you have all that debt and you have a disaster in a crop or whatever, you have nothing else to fall back on.
For the last 10 or 12 years we've been selling grain below the cost of production, so for anything we're growing, we're in a system now that when you have all the equipment and you have everything else, you can't quit farming. You're going to quit when you die.
Looking at that aspect of it, we need to try to recoup our costs of production first. As for better management, I think every grower out there....
I heard the comment about seven years ago from a farmer. He said, “If I had been farming with my head, I would have quit a long time ago.”
I'm of that same point of view.