W.Brehm said: (quoted from post at 10:24:38 02/21/12) Does My parents bought a 80 acre farm 1 mile east of LaMotte, Iowa in Jackson County after they got married.
I grew up probably not that far from you in NE Iowa. Dad dropped out of college to run my grandmothers farm during the depression (1934). Later his brother joined him and when Dad and Mom got married they started renting on their own near Earlville. In '56 they bought a small 100 acres about 20 miles NW of there and Dad went to work off the farm. I was a freshman in HS and pretty much ran the farm with Dad working, but taking off work to plant corn, bale hay, etc.
Before we moved, Dad had had a JD B, A, 60 and a Farmall Cub, and C (not all at once). After moving Dad traded the 60 and 227 picker (didn't sell on the auction) for a Farmall Super C and most of the equipment to run the 100 acres. In the fall of '58, carpenter work was slow so Dad bought another JD 60 and 227 picker and did custom corn picking. Then because he had the bigger tractor, we rented more land and I even rented 50 acres myself from the local banker. We were trying to decide whether to expand when I graduated HS, but due to a little thing called the "draft", I decided I needed to get my service over first... got married while in the AF and never got back to the farm. Dad died in '84, but Mom stayed on the farm until the mid-late '90s. That's my story and I'm stickin' to it!
This post was edited by IH fan at 19:45:59 02/21/12.
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