I was farming in 1990, milking 30 Holstein cows, and I had roughly that 120 acres of land to use. Half I owned half rented. I was 29, and had been running my farm I started on my own for nine years at this point. I did have a pipe line milking system and a flat top milk tank, but I cleaned the stables with a shovel and a wheelbarrow. 1990 was the year I built a bale barn40x60 for big round bales and had bought a New Idea round baler. Cows are dry hay , and I did rotational grazing from May first till weather turned to bad in end of October. I maintained a very small equipment line, and a small debt load. I had a JI Case 530 Diesel triple range , my CIH 585 with 2200 loader, bought new in 1987, and paid cash for it. I also had a 1987 CIH 885 with cab, my big tractor bought it used, and it was also paid for. NH 155manure spreader I bought new, and a 488 NH haybine bought in 1990. I had just sold my 46IH sq baler and thrower wagons that spring when I went to big round bales. Life was good, I was young strong and ambitious, and could work all day and half the night if I needed to. Our second son was born in November of 1990. My farm didn’t have a house on it when I bought it, we lived in a 12x60 mobile home. And in 1989 I moved a house from town onto the farm, and sold the mobile. Maybe not everyone’s idea of the right choices of equipment, it served me well , and I had moved most of it on within 5 years for better stuff. I did put in a Patz stable cleaner in the barn in 91-92 when I built on to the barn. It was fun !
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Today's Featured Article - Good As New - by Bill Goodwin. In the summer of 1995, my father, Russ Goodwin, and I acquired the 1945 Farmall B that my grandfather used as an overseer on a farm in Waynesboro, Georgia. After my grandfather’s death in 1955, J.P. Rollins, son of the landowner, used the tractor. In the winter 1985, while in his possession the engine block cracked and was unrepairable. He had told my father
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