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Growing up on a small family dairy farm in the 1970's,one of things I enjoyed was looking at a Hoards Dairyman magazine each month.Was a very informative journal as I remember it.But the June is dairy month issue told a kid like me that school was almost over for the year and hay season was just around the corner...man it was some good times.Me and some buddies made pretty good money putting up hay for dad and the other neighboring farms.Used to go down to the local A&W and drink root beer by the gallons after working all day.That was before we were old enough to drink real beer but that's another story.And then there was the music...Lynyrd Skynyrd,The Eagles,Led Zeppelin etc.Here it is some forty years later and I'm still making hay in the same neighborhood but the hay now goes to the horse people and others with a few head of livestock.Most of the dairies are gone now for various reasons.I guess I feel fortunate to have grown up on a working farm in that time period.But I suppose most people can say the same thing about their own lives.Ok done reminiscing now.Oh and drink milk it's the real food!

Paul
 
Great post,pms. Really enjoyed reading it!

It does sometimes seem to me that back then the grass was greener, the sky more blue, and life better.
 
Yep, I remember Hoard's Dairyman from the 1970's. As a kid I used to dream about all the equipment advertised and it was not too long afterward that I realized it just was not possible to have an entire fleet of new equipment. All the dairies have long gone and most of the families that were there as well. Glad that I don't have to throw around small square bales of hay or crawl up the silo getting haylage under my shirt at this point in life. I do miss when we or the neighbors would chop corn for silage and blow it into the upright silos.
 
Quite a few years ago...about 20 years ago,wow how time flys. Here in Hunterdon county they would have Dairy Day. One of the dairy farms in the county would host the day. Wagon rides through the fields, everybody looking at the cows, there would be a dairy truck handing out cartons of white and chocolate milk, etc. I used to drive one of the wagon tractors. Been many years ago now. Only one of those dairies is left. Guess nobody does this anymore.
 
Every month is Dairy month for me still. I still take Hoards , and enjoy reading the sometimes controversial articles and , Opinions and brick a braks, as well as the Hoards has heard sections in each issue. I worked for a neighbor in the 1970s milking and making hay all summer. And I too listen to Skynard and the Eagles. It was a great time to be a kid. All the dairy farms where I grew up are also gone now too. And there are less and less of us hard nosed, or hard headed guys left milking cows. Herds seem to drop off every month now. And if we don?t soon start to see some normal summer type weather, what will we feed our cows next winter?
 
Fortunate that we went through the 1970's as kids and did not face the things our parents did such as rising inflation after the 1973 oil embargo. Purchasing power greatly diminished and equipment had to last far longer which ultimately did not happen. Seems like by 1980 most of the neighbors had four tractors with maybe two that they could rely on. Tempers get short if one of the runners goes down.
 
(quoted from post at 17:08:10 06/01/19) Fortunate that we went through the 1970's as kids and did not face the things our parents did such as rising inflation after the 1973 oil embargo. Purchasing power greatly diminished and equipment had to last far longer which ultimately did not happen. Seems like by 1980 most of the neighbors had four tractors with maybe two that they could rely on. Tempers get short if one of the runners goes down.
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NY 986 those were tough times alright!! The manager where I worked was all over Jimmy Carter's Whip Inflation Now campaign. No raises!! yet prices of lots of things were going up. I remember no money for Christmas. I made some blocks for the kids from wood left over from building an addition. I made them in 5-6 different shapes and sizes, and painted them all multiple colors. I was thinking pretty seriously of going down the road offering to shovel driveways.
 
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