Farmers don't talk about how much land they own. I suppose that's understandable. Because so much of their net worth is tied up in acreage, they often say they're "land rich and cash poor." My wife's family farms, so I hear stuff like that a lot. They are pretty happy, however, about how they got however much land they do own.

They were lucky to have reaped some rewards of the California gold rush. Seems that back in the mid-1800s, one of their ancestors followed a dream to t ...

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