Bruce there are thousands of farm steads that this is what they have become. The long decline in the farm population is a down ward spril that just seems to keep going. It seems to happen to dairy farm more than grain farms. I would guess that is because the size of the average dairy herd has really exploded in the last 10-15 years. So where they would have been 10 sixty cow dairies there are one 600 head one around here.
Also there is not the pride of ownership that used to be the norm. It is more dollars and cents these days. A barn that is not useable for modern sized equipment has little value to many people. So therefore they do zero maintenance, let it fall down than burn it, bury it and farm right over the site.
I do not have pictures but just west of me was a beautiful farm stead. Nice house and good livestock barns. I tried to buy the entire farm several times and they would not sell it. Their son sold it to a BTO and he bulldozed every single thing down and farms across it. This was just last year. The buildings where in good repair and well kept. I know the old man is spinning in his grave that his life time of work is all gone.
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