The bto I worked for for the last 5 1/2 years is looking for more land, from what I hear. I'm pretty sure he is going to lose 2000 rented acres unless he pays out the nose for it. The landowner found out that after 5 years there, I still qualified for subsidised housing, and they haven't been getting along lately anyhow.
Others in the area are paying what I was making plus a vehicle, rent, and cell phone, and one is running 30 cattle cost-free for their hired man. His cousin is paying his hired man, who started a few months before I did, $7 an hour more with 40 hrs a week guaranteed, plus a truck to drive.
But we couldn't get engine brakes, trailer brakes, and cracked trailer frames fixed because it might cost too much. And I didn't grease fifth wheels enough, though the one that took all the work this winter is the one with the trailer that can carry 100,000 pounds of grain, and on occasion has, by volume.
I was getting 2-3 hours a day the last month I was there, the guy I worked with was working 8-9 hour days on salary.
And he wonders why he can't find help. Paying 12 an hour while everyone around you is starting at 15 is pretty much going to guarantee you won't. When the mechanic they hired left 2 years ago, they missed out on a couple guys who went elsewhere, because someone else offered them pasture space for their dozen cows they had.
It's like they don't even want the guys working for them to get ahead, because we might be more competition for them someday.
I was told by one of the biggest guys in the area that he doesn't really know me but from what others have told him I'd be worth 50 a year just to have another hand around, but he can't justify it with $3 corn, with $5 corn he'd have put me on in a heartbeat.
I really wish the people who never really had much to say to me til they found out I was looking for work elsewhere, would have told me some of the things they have told me now that I'm no longer there, about 3 years ago.
It's funny, I've had 2 guys I've delivered distillers to, tell me in the exact same words, what they thought of me, sticking it out there as long as I did.
This reminds me, he still owes me $500 for a parts truck I sold him because I don't have any place to put it now. Only been a month.
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