Gosh. My folks moved to Michigan and bought a farm about the time I started high school, by golly I decided I wanted to farm. Went to Michigan State University, I have probably the last or about the last Dairy Science Degree they awarded. When I graduated I was working full time as a mechanic on a golf course and doing all the farming at home (dad was an OTR truck driver). The 40 across the road came for sale, I could buy it for $15,000 dollars, could not get a loan on it. 90 days later I could sign my name and get a new Ford pick up for $10,000 so it wasn't a lack of credit history. I suppose had I been able to buy the 40 I'd probably be misbaker here and still farming. I quit the golf course and wandered from herd to herd for a while trying to learn the Dairy business, this was about the time we started paying folks that owned cows not to milk them. One job I interviewed for happened to be a family with the same last name, they thought that was handy one of the interview questions was "this is our daughter, do you like her?" The long hours, low wages and the lack of time for a social life eventually caused me to quit dairying and join the Air Force. Yes I wished it came out differently and that it would of been possible for me to stay farming and provide a more stable life for my daughters. For that to happen things outside my control would of had to happen differently or I would have had to been a different person. Had farming worked out I don't think I'd be married to the same women I am and I wouldn't want to trade her for a farm or the other things we have talked about. So yes I wish it had come out differently but I don't regret it.
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Today's Featured Article - Grain Threshing in the Early 40's - by Jerry D. Coleman. How many of you can sit there and say that you have plowed with a mule? Well I would say not many, but maybe a few. This story is about the day my Grandfather Brown (true name) decided along with my parents to purchase a new Ford tractor. It wasn't really new except to us. The year was about 1967 and my father found a good used Ford 601 tractor to use on the farm instead of "Bob", our old mule. Now my grandfather had had this mule since the mid 40's and he was getting some age on him. S
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