So I'm not exactly a new-agey-touchy-feely guy... but I used to get premonitions that were spot-on. They were literally visions. I would see a scene that later would happen. They ended in my early 20's and I long ago dismissed them as coincidences or perhaps wishful thinking.
As I was leaving the US in August I had no premonition but the overwhelming anxiety was something I just could not rationally explain. Sadly, the anxiety proved to be justified as settling the farm estate has become a whole lot more complicated due to crashing corn/bean prices and family infighting. In the summer of 2004 I sat in the kitchen with Mom and Dad and gamed out all of the scenarios of dealing with the estate - what would work well, what wouldn't work, etc. - and I have to give Mom credit: Ten years ahead of time she was able to see where the problems would lie. I love my father dearly but he was clueless. He was literally the Rodney King of our family - "Can't we all get along?"
Our farm land will go on sale on October 31. The sale price could be stable or down hundreds of thousands of dollars.... talk about a scary Halloween!
Fortunately, a farm near ours will go for sale in late September. I consider it the canary in the coal mine. Has the fall in corn prices killed land values? We shall see soon enough.
As I was leaving the US in August I had no premonition but the overwhelming anxiety was something I just could not rationally explain. Sadly, the anxiety proved to be justified as settling the farm estate has become a whole lot more complicated due to crashing corn/bean prices and family infighting. In the summer of 2004 I sat in the kitchen with Mom and Dad and gamed out all of the scenarios of dealing with the estate - what would work well, what wouldn't work, etc. - and I have to give Mom credit: Ten years ahead of time she was able to see where the problems would lie. I love my father dearly but he was clueless. He was literally the Rodney King of our family - "Can't we all get along?"
Our farm land will go on sale on October 31. The sale price could be stable or down hundreds of thousands of dollars.... talk about a scary Halloween!
Fortunately, a farm near ours will go for sale in late September. I consider it the canary in the coal mine. Has the fall in corn prices killed land values? We shall see soon enough.
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