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I was looking at some older pictures. The first pic is an aerial pic from May of 1986, the year I graduated from highschool. My parents retired (from farming), sold the farm and moved to town in 2005. The next 2 pics were taken April of 2010. Sad how things just seem to deteriorate over time. Dad said they(people who bought it) finaly pulled the barn down before it fell. The farm is in North Central Iowa. SHON
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In response to your photo and post here is a picture of the farm where I was raised until I left to enter the USMC in July 1955. To the right is a cornor of my dads chicken house,one of three 5000 bird houses. The Home I was raised in with my Parents and my siblings, behind that was our Dairy processing plant with 2 of the Divco delivery trucks shown and beyond that is Dads 40 Cow Milking Barn.We raised ,milked and sold purebred Guernsey Dairy Cattle. There was one more silo added after this photo around 1952.Several other buildings and the large Corn crib are not shown here.It is all gone now. Houses,commercial buisnesses,and a large entertainment establishment now reside where I grew up.About 140 acres of the crop land is still farmed and so far the timber trac has not been touched even tho it has changed hands several times in the last near 30 years.
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You know its really sad to see these old farms falling apart, I often drive by the farm where I was raised and it makes me sick to see city people move to the country and demolish these old farmsteads and put up a new home, I often worry we will see a day where nobody knows what a barn is, it will be nothing but metal pole buildings.
 
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