Welcome from Bama... in the same boat as you. Got out of the cattle business in '18. Gave a young family member a chance to run the farm, disaster. Now a much older cousin is running beef here, things are going much better, at least it looks like a farm again.
About that, something to look into... Through my state university system, there are programs that place young college grads (agriculture) with farms that need management. Lots of variables and red tape but still has my interest. Your state might have a similar program, several southern states do. It's a way of keeping farmland as a producing farm when old farmers retire... instead of being lost to some real estate guy who'll chop up a farm into little pieces and sell it off.
My state also has a conservancy program (because of farmland being lost). With my permission the state will designate my land as a farm. Even after I'm gone it can never be sold as anything except as an intact farm. The land can't be chopped up into pieces.
from Ohio!
