Like someone else said, farmers nowadays specialize in one or two crops, or only one or two profit centers. Then when things go sour, they have no other source of income. Our fathers and ancestors grew corn, wheat, and oats. They also fed a bunch of hogs and some beef critters and milk cows. Maybe a henhouse full of chickens. If one thing wiped out, they had income from another source.
I'm 83 years old, and I can remember the tail end of the "Dirty Thirties". It seemed we always got a decent wheat crop even if our corn dried out. Then it was a Saturday afternoon ritual to take a can of cream, some cases of eggs, and maybe a crate of chickens into town to sell at a place called the "Farmer's Union". We'd then buy groceries and supplies for the upcoming week.
Nowadays, there isn't even a place to sell cream, eggs, and produce on an ongoing basis except for the Farmer's Market on the courthouse square on Wednesday evenings and Saturday mornings.
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