I used to think it was awful, and somehow showed some kind of failure on the farmers behalf, now I realize that this is in fact not the case. The barns were built for a specific purpose, to hold lose hay, and sheaves of grain , and to shelter livestock in the stables below the hay mow. Over built, these barns have lasted over 100 years with only minimal repair and maintenance required. As farming changed , many barns were renovated and added on to so they could allow the farmer to advance with the changing times. But you can only do so much with a old barn built 100 years ago in the age of steam and horse drawn equipment. There are no labour efficiency’s in working in these old barns nowadays. The barns no not lend themselves to storage of large round or square bales, and tie stall dairy barns are rapidly coming to a end, as the cost of labour, the low price for milk , and the unwillingness of people to do the kind of manual labour required to run livestock in these barns. I hate to see them go, as they are a direct link to my forefathers, and I have owned and worked in a bank barn my entire adult life. But given the chance to pull my old barns brown and move my cows into a modern barn, it wouldn’t take me long to make the plans to move. Barns are nice to look at, but you wouldn’t want to have to work in one.
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