# Ranchers on credit ...

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [October 4, 2008, 12:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ranchers-on-credit/466436 "2008-10-04T12:19:29Z")\
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**Post date:** [October 6, 2008, 2:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ranchers-on-credit/466436/21 "2008-10-06T14:42:50Z")

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> [@brazil84](#):
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> It’s not like a regular job where you get a paycheck every week or two and you pay your bills once or twice a month.

In fact, now I think about it, a lot of businesses are exactly the opposite of a regular job - bills arrive every week (or every day), and the payments come in once every month or two. Farming is probably the extreme case, where you work (and spend) for a year before you harvest/slaughter and pray for a good price when the stuff hits market. This is why they invented futures trading, but I guess even that is pretty gummed up at the moment.

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