Didn't have a choice; my dad was the most controlling person I've ever known. When we graduated from HS in '62, most of my friends headed off to college. I was told....in effect....to put my butt in the tractor/cotton picker/combine, etc seat. One would think that at 18 years old, one could make their own decisions, but I was too conditioned/accustomed to obeying. The concept had been RIGIDLY enforced for 18 years. I worked for him for a few years, before I finally got it through my head that I was never gonna be a partner, just essentially slave labor. By then, I thought it was too late to do anything else. A neighbor asked if I was interested in buying a half-interest in his cattle and renting his 320 acres; another 330 acres in the community was also for rent. I approached the president at the locally owned bank, to see if they would back me; in retrospect, I can't believe that they did, but they gave me a $75,000 line of credit. Eventually, I was farming 1,000 acres of row crop and running almost 300 head of (commercial) mama beef cows. I'm since retired; it was a good, though VERY stressful life; if I had it to do over, knowing what I know now, I might do something else.
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Today's Featured Article - A Lifetime of Farm Machinery - by Joe Michaels. I am a mechanical engineer by profession, specializing in powerplant work. I worked as a machinist and engine erector, with time spent overseas. I have always had a love for machinery, and an appreciation for farming and farm machinery. I was born and raised in Brooklyn, New York. Not a place one would associate with farms or farm machinery. I credit my parents for instilling a lot of good values, a respect for learning, a knowledge of various skills and a little knowledge of farming in me, amo
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