My big concern is factory livestock farming. Back when I was a kid, Dad raised hogs much like everybody else. If a farmer had enough space to put a hog pen and a way to get them up to Olean, Charlotte would buy every single hog for 2 cents under the St. Louis market price. Then once a week, she'd load up and take them to the big city. I remember back then, the "break even" price for us was 45 cents. Anything less wouldn't cover the feed bill. We got pretty good at selling around 50 cents.
Then one day, a BIG corporation came in and flooded the market. Prices fell to about 35 cents and stayed there. The smaller guys were strangled and had to give it up. Some of the larger operations were able to contract with the big boys. But with a price tag of close to $1 million, to build a hog barn to there specs, most had to get out and Charlotte now works at Orcheln's in town.
Of course, now that the big boys have the market cornered, hog prices are back up. Enough to where I think I might be able to keep my head up if I don't get too extravagant. Of course, instead of hauling them 6 miles to Olean, I now have to haul them about 50 miles over to Freeburg. But I can do something those under contract cannot do. I can sell to individuals as well as the market.
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Today's Featured Article - Old Time Threshing - by Anthony West. A lovely harvest evening late September 1947, I was a school boy, like all school boys I loved harvest time. The golden corn ripens well and early, the stoking, stacking,.... the drawing in with the tractors and trailers and a few buck rakes thrown in, and possibly a heavy horse. It would be a great day for the collies and the terrier dogs, rats and mice would be at the bottom of the stacks so the dogs, would have a busy time hunting and killing, all the corn was gathered and ricked in what we c
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