[AT] On the shoulders of giants

[David Bruce]

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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