[AT] Rain at last

[Ralph Goff]

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From: Dean VP <deanvp at att.net>
To: 'Antique tractor email discussion group' <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
Sent: Thursday, May 19, 2005 1:59 AM
Subject: RE: [AT] Rain at last


> I just don't understand how dry land farmers live with that uncertainty
year
> after year.  Most of the time it all works out.> I really have a lot of
admiration and respect for those of you who have
> lived under those types of stressful situations and not only survived but
> have made a good life of it. I congratulate you.

Dean, after 50 years on the farm I still don't know of anything else I would
rather be doing even considering today's thin (or worse) profit margins. I
read recently that the 1970s were the most profitable years for farming in
recent history. We didn't realize how good we had it then.
Still, if I had to work the big acres now with the machinery my father used
I doubt I'd be farming. Shivering  in the unheated cab of the 970 Case last
week picking rocks wearing parka, and full winter regalia I just had to
wonder how the old timers endured sitting out on an open tractor in the wind
and 30 something temps .
I read the journals and look at the old photos of my parents and
grandparents life on the farm over the past hundred years. Every day I walk
and work on the same ground my grandfathers did and that means a lot to me.
Not just a living but a way of life. Thats a tired old cliche but it
describes my situation.

Ralph in Sask.
http://lgoff.sasktelwebsite.net/
BTW,,, did any of you check out the old crawler tractor pic at my webpage
yet? Still waiting on a positive i.d. from somebody who knows more about it
than me.