[AT] On the shoulders of giants

[Cecil Bearden]

I got some good news here in OKla as well.  One of the big farmers here 
and a food friend bought the 80 acres that joins mine on the West.  Of 
course, I was told by the owner that I would be the first to know when 
the realtors were out of the picture, and I was never called.....  I was 
relieved to hear of my new neighbor, and told him so.  At least for a 
few years it will not be developed, and if so, I may be able to buy a 
strip to put some distance between me and the new idiots that move in....

Cecil in OKla


On 2/13/2017 5:54 AM, David Bruce wrote:
> We are seeing some turnover here as well. If there are no family members
> still farming the farms usually are sold for development. Being that we
> are less than half an hour from Winston-Salem, NC that sort of thing has
> been going on since my childhood but it does seem to be accelerating.
> Some local good new a farm next to me was sold intact to the son of a
> local farm family and he is staying in the farm business. His sister
> bought my great grandparent's house and 5 acres of the original farm (of
> which my property was once part of). It is unlikely the immediate area
> will be subdivided for a couple decades but one never knows.
>
> David
>
> NW NC
>
>
> On 2/12/2017 7:25 PM, Phil Auten wrote:
>> I can sympathize with the comment about family farms getting cut up for
>> subdivisions.
>>
>> I went to visit my dad's family farm in Davison, Mi. in 1964. One of my
>> uncles was still
>>
>> farming then, using a pretty large John Deere (don't know the model, but
>> it had a hand
>>
>> clutch) raising wheat and other crops. Dad and I helped harvest the
>> winter wheat and
>>
>> I really enjoyed driving that JD. :o)
>>
>> My late wife and I went back to visit in '99 and only the house and yard
>> were left. The
>>
>> rest of the land was a subdivision. The "Centennial Farm" sign was still
>> in the yard
>>
>> though.That was the only good thing about the visit, as nobody was home
>> when we
>>
>> stopped by.
>>
>>
>> Phil in Tx.
>>
>>
>> On 2/12/2017 4:31 PM, Chuck Bealke wrote:
>>> Y’all,
>>>
>>> Sure appreciate the comments on the thread that Spencer started, especially Farmer’s
>>> with the picture. My memories start as WW2 was ending and my Grandfather bought
>>> the farm we moved to later. A few muscles leftover from summers stacking bales are probably
>>> what keeps me going today, and I still miss plowing, working nice ground and mowing hay.
>>> Can remember my dad saying (truthfully) that we really had things pretty easy compared
>>> to lots of other folks - and also that there were no locks on the door if I were ever fool enough
>>> to want to leave home to try things somewhere else. The farm was a terrific place to grow up
>>> and learn important lessons of life early in a beautiful setting. Too bad so many nice ones like ours
>>> were cut up to make subdivisions, but memories of them are still fun years later.
>>>
>>> Chuck Bealke
>>> Dallas, TX
>>>
>>>> On 2/11/2017 9:05 PM, Spencer Yost wrote:
>>>>> I keep this gas can in my tractor shop, to remind me of all of the hundreds of times I mowed the yard at our family's home while growing up...
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