There are a lot of dynamics and forces at play in rural farming areas. One could probably write a book just trying to capture as many as possible. At least I experienced my childhood during the time when neighbors were neighbors. We could work together at any one of the nearby farms on some endeavor. Those endeavors could be shelling corn, filling silo, building a grain bin, baling hay. We got along. We would turn these neighborhood endeavors into a large group feed at the end of the day. We could have neighborhood get together events during the year. Be borrowed equipment from one another, and it always would come back in at least as good condition as compared to when it left the place. We were invited to weddings and graduations, and we all turned out to show support for funerals of our respective family members who died. Corporate banking and the decisions made as to who was too big to fail (in many occasions on more than one occasion) was rather divisive in the neighborhood, especially when the one who "was forgiven" showed up at church one day with a brand new Cadillac, Lincoln, or at least Buick. The following spring, a new lineup of farm equipment was out on the landscape. Competition for land resources drastically intensified. Outside money started pouring into the area buying up land tracts for sale. Long time neighbors and friends got into feuds over land tracts. The scattering of confinement swine barns throughout the countryside brought about more contempt from those who opted not to adapt to this sort of change. Those family farms remaining in ownership by the children, who are out looking for a consistent payment of rent made the economics of farming even more dismal, as BTO's and other corporate entities were and remain willing to rent a farm and receive razor thin margins in order to spread out costs over a larger land base, while I find more of them are making the gamble they can file bankruptcy again and again. The neighborhoods and those who remain on the landscape today know who these people are, but grow more and more powerless to counter what is considered "progress." Farming is not for the faint or weak at heart..........................or for those who are of meager means!
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