Dad moved us up to WI in 69 since he wasn't gonna pay 300 an acre for land in OH!!.....
Anyhoo...We had several 40 cow farms as I was growing up. Had barns burn, insurance companies rip us off, dads heart needed repair....but somehow we always got back to a dairy farm. Even after his last heart attack after our last barn burned when he was 51 he was looking to wheel and deal his way into another farm. couldn't hardly walk out to the mailbox but by god he was gonna milk some cows.
I don't have it quite that bad but I do miss the click click of the pulsators working or the sound and smell of the ladies munching their hay as I turn out the lights and head in for the night.
The wife doesn't really care for the idea of milking cows but we do have some goats and she wouldn't mind working up to commercial size with them so I guess I'd take half an udder over none.
This summer really took me back...Just hopped off the tractor after pulling in with the first load of hay I'd baled in many years and the wife kicked on the vacuum pump...was almost like stepping in a time warp.
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Today's Featured Article - Harvestin Hay: The Early Years (Part 2) - by Pat Browning. The summer of 1950 was the start of a new era in farming for our family. I was thirteen, and Kathy (my oldest sister) was seven. At this age, I believed tractor farming was the only way, hot stuff -- and given a chance I probably would have used the tractor, Dad's first, a 1936 Model "A" John Deere, to go bring in the cows! And I think Dad was ready for some automation too. And so it was that we acquired a good, used J. I. Case, wire tie hay baler. In addition to a person to drive th
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