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Published March 30, 2009 08:16 am - Kenneth Sartin hasn’t been laid off and has a pretty good idea where he’ll get his next meal. Diversification key to stable farming operation By GINA KINSLOW Glasgow Daily Times CAVE CITY — Kenneth Sartin considers himself to be lucky.
He hasn’t been laid off and has a pretty good idea where he’ll get his next meal. Sartin has been a farmer all of his life. He is his own boss. “I get up in the morning and nobody’s standing over me with a gun telling me what I gotta do,” he said. “I do what I want and I like what I do.” While he doesn’t have to worry about being laid off, he still has to worry about making a living; something that has become more difficult over the years. “The economy hasn’t affected me as badly as the guys who lost their jobs,” he said. “Cattle may not be like we would like for them to be, but you can still get some eating money out of it.” He credits his stability as a farmer to diversification. “I don’t put all of my eggs into one basket, if you know what I mean,” he said. “I learned a long time ago to not put all of my eggs into one basket.” Sartin raises beef cattle, tobacco and hay and he hauls lime and rock for others. Farming has been good to him over the years. “I paid for my first car raising tobacco and milking cows,” he said. But he hasn’t relied on it solely for his well-being. “I’ve had some other things going on besides farming,” he said. For 30 years he worked in tobacco barns. He’s also worked for the Kentucky Department of Agriculture for four years and served as director of the Burley Tobacco Growers Cooperative for nine years. There are people who can make a living on farming alone, but Sartin said those are the farmers who own upwards of 1,000 acres of land. “A little man can’t make it just farming,” he said. “He’ll starve to death.” 
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