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Re: how farming has changed in your lifetime


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Posted by MF#1 on July 02, 2020 at 19:45:37 from (151.213.192.53):

In Reply to: how farming has changed in your lifetime posted by swindave on July 02, 2020 at 11:31:57:

Wow, that's a good one. I grew up in Kentucky in the 60's through the 80's. Yes, I know what Grade C milk is, that's all we sold, no pipeline, milked a dozen cows by hand the old fashioned way. At eleven I could swing a 10 gallon can of milk up and over into the cooler. No matter how hard the other farming was you knew you were going to milk EVERY day, twice a day. My mother taught school, Dad drove a school bus and farmed. Started out with about 1.5 acres of tobacco which grew to 20 acres, I don't care how hard baling hay was tobacco was a killer. I've hung tobacco when I only came down out of the barn for lunch and supper, soaking wet with sweat, did it day after day. At least when cutting or loading you were outside where maybe you had a breeze;-) When we started tobacco we would burn our beds where we grew our plants then used plastic and gas, then bought plants grown in a greenhouse. We used to strip the leaves and tie them in "hands", 12 per stick, that became baling in bales, big change. Also grew corn and baled hay for the cows. I remember when we tried no-till, paraquat was the weapon of choice, hand picked many acres, finally got a picker and elevator and thought "what took us so long". By the time I finished college I was ready for a change and did twenty years in the military. When I came back home I bought my own farm, still raised a little tobacco until the buy-out and had beef cattle while working a "town" job. Sold the cows in 2018, maybe I'll get back in cattle....maybe. When you grow up working on a farm it never leaves you.


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