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<p>Same thing here in Western OK... I talked to a fellow who grew
up in SE Missouri from the Army Corps of Engineers back in about
2005 or so... He said when he left to go to Korea with the U S
Army, he had verbally commit ted to buying a 1/4 section and was
going to come back and farm. 3 years later when he returned, he
could no longer afford the land and it took 6 or 7, 1/4 sections
to make a living. He went to work for the Corps... It has only
gotten worse year by year. Americans do not realize how little of
their paycheck goes for food compared to the rest of the world. I
won't go on, it would probably get political. It makes me so sad
because I wanted to be a farmer since I was 8yrs old. I remember
laying in the middle of the living room floor looking at the new
Progressive Farmer Mag and drooling over the new Allis Chalmers
D21, and going to the State Fair and sitting in the cab of a new
2470 Case 4WD. I finally bought one 6 years ago and just need
to change the tires and wheels... <br>
Now I sit here with Ice on my knee & ankle due to tripping
over a stick in the grass while feeding the horses... If you guys
heard a loud noise coming from OK about 2pm yesterday, it was me
when I tripped and ended up sitting on my ankle with my bad knee
bent farther than it has for a few years.............. This is
the lowest temperature on record this week and here I sit with
Ice!!!!!!!!<br>
Cecil<br>
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<div dir="auto">I have felt the same thing. Most of my family
were farmers in NE Indiana since the 1880s. Along with many
others, my folks both left the farm. I spent a great deal of
time on these farms, especially the one of my maternal
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<div dir="auto">Six months or so I was over that way and drove a
loop passing a number of my old haunts. I won’t be making that
drive again. Most of the houses are still there, but not a
single barn I stacked so much hay in still stands. Mother’s
folks had a large (mostly apple) orchard. It too is gone.
Happily, I have an aerial view from the mid 50s. That picture
makes a sad comparison to the satellite image of today.</div>
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<div dir="auto">Ok, that’s enough. Just an old man reminiscing!!</div>
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<div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Jul 24, 2019 at 7:15
PM Ralph Goff <<a href="mailto:alfg@sasktel.net"
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7/24/2019 4:30 PM, Greg Hass wrote:<br>
> Had to take a trip to a town 20 miles from here today.
Decided to <br>
> bring back roads home; pasted many old barns some
falling down, some <br>
> being kept up. You could tell from the old milk houses
that many had <br>
> been dairy farms. Many old silos, a lot with the blower
pipes still <br>
> up. All are now a part of the past, a past that will
never come back. <br>
> Many memories came to mine of how it used to be, farms
all over with <br>
> small herds of cattle and the family making a living.
My dad was able <br>
> to raise 6 kids and send most to college on 160 acres;
my mother never <br>
> worked off the farm- she never worked on the farm
either but thats a <br>
> whole other story. Now we have several farms in the
county that milk <br>
> over 5000 cows.<br>
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I lived through those good times too and its sad to see them
gone. Most <br>
obvious here is the disappearance of the wooden grain
elevators and the <br>
rail lines that brought life to every<br>
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little town here. Maybe each generation sees the same thing
in the loss <br>
of the way of life they knew.<br>
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Ralph in Sask.<br>
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