Always have been somewhat diversified here. Dad had,timber, maple , hay, beef, potatoes, and milk. He always did a little bulldozing and building on the side.
Sold the milkers in 1954, switched to heifer raising and more logging, started plowing snow in the winters.
Mid 60's he went to beef instead of heifers, just about quit construction, and increased the logging.
I came back to the farm in "70, he was slowing down, and I was kind of drifting, we just "coasted" for a few years.
In 1982, he bought our first 4x4 pickup, and we got a little more serious about the snow plowing.
About 1990 we sold the beef herd, started selling all the hay, and doing more bush hogging/mowing for other people. Mid 90's was the last commercial potato crop, and also the last full time winter logging. Dad died in 2000, at 93 years old.
At present, I am selling hay, maple syrup, and a little firewood. I plow snow in the winter, and bush hog/mow through the summer.
Throughout the years, the various enterprises have been split about in thirds, as far as income.
In 2012 there was no snow, the maple crop was short, and the hay had to carry me until snow money started coming in in January of 2013. Another profitable enterprise would have been really welcome that year
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