I never was a farmer, but in the early 70's I had a hog floor, and it made enough money that it could be considered "fun". It was only 40 X 40, and divided into 4 pens. I could keep 15 head per pen, and rotate a batch in and out each month. I bought all of the pigs at a local auction barn, bought all of the feed, and had lots of hand labor. I kept good records, and often made a profit of $50 per head. That was a lot of money to a young man in 1970. I had a day job, so the hogs were a sideline, but the work never stopped. The manure was cleaned off daily by hand, but I was young then. My wife and I were rolling in the dough - got all of our debts paid off, and what could go wrong. Then came the 80's. It got to where you couldn't hardly give a hog away. When we got down to $10 profit per hog, it was no longer "fun", and I stopped buying feeders. I remember guys saying they just opened their gates and let their hogs roam. One guy claimed that he left 6 pigs in a stock trailer with a sign "Free to a good home". Came back the next morning and there were 8 pigs in his trailer. Good memories, but those days are over. I don't know where you'd find a hog in our neighborhood now. I used to step out in the evening, and I could hear feeder lids rattling in every direction from our place. No more. There's got to be some big boys in the hog business yet, because I see pork in the meat section of the grocery store, but the little guy is on the side.
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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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