I still have a very small farm. I work full time, and farm on the side.
We sold our family farm in 1994. Only 45 - 50 dairy cows, and about 20 head young stock. About 120 acres. Good soil, decent yields. We had an 886, 504 utility with a loader, a Farmall M, a IH 203 combine with a "Robot" header control, a IH 275 Haybine, a IH 56 planter, a 46 baler, and a Fox pull type chopper. Along with a bunch of other smaller stuff. We had an IH truck, but I don't remember what model. It was banana yellow. We milked with the Surge buckets,and then put in a Bou-matic pipeline in the late 70's. Much nicer.
We baled and stacked in our barn about 14,000+ hay bales a year. I spent most of my life in the haymow,as my brother and Mom had hay allergies real bad, so they got to stay on the wagon unloading onto the elevator. It kept me thin!
We picked stones by hand, replaced cedar fence posts by hand. To me it is amazing how corn has become the staple cow food. I grew up when we still were green chopping alfalfa every morning in summer, and feeding a little corn silage/ground soybean/mineral ration at the night milking. The cows were let out to pasture between each milking when the weather was good. When you called the cows into the barn, they always went back to their same stanchions, each time. You did not even have to lock them in; they would wait until they were done being milked, then leave the barn. It was real nice. Too bad it was not profitable; I could have taken it over. But the late 80's were hard on alot of farmers, us included. It is a bunch of new houses now, and the "big" farmers rent what is left.
Sometimes I miss the old farm; I don't miss being dirt-a$$ poor, though.
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