Posted by Al Baker(pumpman) on March 20, 2016 at 14:41:22 from (208.77.130.238):
How about the farms that have come and gone, then come and gone again? I drove by the dairy farm down the road today while delivering a few loads of manure to their final resting place. I got to thinking. This farm has a new operator. Young local kid about 25, very hard worker, hope he can make it fly. When I was in school this farm was the home to the grand parents of one of my school mates. It had been in the family for over 100 years. Grandpa and his son owned over 600 acres of ground plus rented. This was in 79 to 1980. By 1982 they were all gone.Second grandson was employed by the new owner of their farm and was able to cut a deal with him to buy back grandpas 40 and a 40 cross the road. The stress put grandpa and grandma into the ground in a short time. These were very hard working well respected people. Their offspring not so hard working. Their son, and grandson moved from the used trailer house cross the road to the home 40 and decided to start milking cows. Fast forward 12-15 years and Son and Grandson have lost the family farm again. I am by no means old ,But have lived to see this place fold twice by the same people. I remember Grandpa calling my Mom and I over to his place to ask if we could help him plant strawberries. He said he paid off this farm raising berries so he would repay the debut his lazy son had made raising berries again. This man was in his mid to late eighties. He wept like a child as he spoke of his 600 acres he handed down to his son debt free only years earlier. I will never forget how sad I felt seeing this old man tell me how he could save his home. Now to see it lost once again. I Guess most guys today just see dirt up for grabs. I still see the family homestead. I see Grandpa hauling manure in the cold, On a early spring day, on an open station tractor before the auction so all the barns would be clean and look good,A very proud man. While the son and grand kids sat in the house feeling sorry for themselves. History has repeated its self. Hope this new kid can break the cycle.
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