All of this. And the personality that farming attracts... it would literally destroy my Dad to fail at something he set out to do. There was a rumor that my g

All of this. And the personality that farming attracts... it would literally destroy my Dad to fail at something he set out to do. There was a rumor that my grandfather killed himself. He had car trouble, and had crawled under the car to fix it. But somehow the jack slipped, and the car pushed a screwdriver into his heart as it fell. He was alone about 5 miles from the home place -- on a road where someone other than his family would find him. He was in his 70s... old for ranchers in the 1960s. Old for ranchers today. Bills were due, and his sons were all drafted into the military. But... once he died, 2 of his sons were able to get out of military service in order to come home and help take care of the ranch. Not everyone made it back, but those 2 did. And the life insurance paid off a lot of their debts that they had no other way of paying. (So now he's got a pasture named after him!) Anyway it's always been a hard life. They don't need a shrink, they need things to be just a little more fair. They don't need huge wins, but they need the ability to provide for the ones they love. Bankers, and re-sellers make money. Ranchers and farmers do not. It's a rigged system. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZRDaPEaDJ7E https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZRDaPEaDJ7E