As a child my family ( mostly my Dad) farmed full time from 1963 until about 1980. Dad owned and farmed 570 acres for the most part alone. My parents had an appliance sales business. Mom ran that and helped on the farm. Dad had a new MF1130 with plow , disc and chisel plow , a 4020D JD , and a couple smaller gas tractors. We row cropped about half the farm in beans , milo and wheat. We had gleaner combines , no corn head and therefore no corn. The only custom work done for us was an occasional crop duster. We always found a way to finish it ourselves. We had 150 angus. Pigs early on. We had square bales into the early 70s , then the allis rotobaler. We got an IH large baler , mower and a Nh rake in 1978. I loved it. Building the grain bins and the machine shed. Watching the crop duster and the veterinarian. Getting a rifle for my birthday. I fondly remember the day we acquired the Kneib square bale loader. I had bucked my last bake off the ground ( or so I thought until working on a commercial hay crew in high school ). There were tragedies too. The loss of many cattle in the winter of 78/79. An accident that later required hardware in my spine. And my parents bitter divorce that changed everything.But growing up on the farm was a dream like childhood. I wouldnt trade the memories for anything. Would do it all again in a heartbeat.
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