My father and the neighbors used to work that way. Next door neighbor owned the forage blower, Pop owned the forage harvester, a couple of wagons and a wagon jack, Couple of others had dump trucks and extra tractors, couple more supplied labor. They all worked together to chop corn. Early to mid 1950's. By the early 1960's about everyone was expanding their herds and had their own equipment.
We are seeing some of the teamwork coming back into vogue again. My neighbor is one of several sons and his fahter and brothers are working several different farms and all of the machinery is shared. Just up the road a farmers son bought the adjoining farm and they share their equipment. Lotta small farmers are buying their forage from the bigger guys. Some of the bigger guys use the smaller farmers for labor so the small guys can reduce their feed bills at times. Which is working together after a fashion. The small guys reduce out-of-pocket feed bills and the big guy gets a decent worker.
On the other side of the coin, sometimes the personality clashes just aren't worth the hassle of working together.
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