This area used to be the typical small mixed farming area of 100 to 200 acres since it was settled about 150 years ago. Then in 1969, three families from near a city sold their farms there and arranged a purchase of 1500 acres all around our farm. They put on quite a show---drove 4 brand new big Case tractors up, each pulling several implements, a couple used tractors, D6 Dozer 3 straight trucks etc. My brothers and I worked for them that summer and baled 40,000 bales of hay. They called may Dad "the gardener " and wanted to hire him as their full time mechanic. Barns were taken down, moved, rebuilt , feed lots and pig barns were built. Things went well for a few years, the dealers were bending over backwards to service them, and then started the not so slow decline. In less than 10 years, there was only one family left and that farm sold about 5 years after that. ALL the barns have since fallen down, most of the houses are gone and those that are left are low income rentals---you know the kind. Most of the large block of land was sold to offshore interests and remains so today, changing renters every couple of years. There is no neighbourhood left here; on my country block (1200 acres) live two families totaling 6 people.and adjacent blocks are the same. Weak and stupid does come to mind when considering the downfall, but so does too big too fast. There have been a few other BTO's in the area that have come and gone as well, and I'm sure the show ain't over yet. Better to be a little wheel going up than a big wheel going down.
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