Off-farm Income

SHOW NOTES I have been very excited to release this episode.  In our interview with Aaron Tiemeyer, talking about his mobile seed cleaning business, we uncover a trend that is happening in farming.  In a previous episode we did about mobile grain roasting our guest notified us that he believed his business would work because smaller farmers were being forced to drive further and possibly not get their grain roasted because consolidated businesses only had time for people with larger amounts of grain.  That interview was out of Virginia. In this episode Aaron Tiemeyer cites the very same reason that he has been able to succeed with his mobile seed cleaning business.  The difference is that he is in Kansas.  From Virginia to Kansas, smaller farmers are experiencing the same thing.  As rural communities shrink and farms become bigger, the service providers for those farmers consolidate and only offer services in more centrally located urban areas.  For smaller farmers they often can't get their seed cleaned