When I was a kid, farms around home had been mixed, but were specializing. My dad shipped cream for 25 years and fed skim milk to hogs, from 1945-1970, also had a flock of laying hens. Dad decided to semi retire and switched to cow calf, no more dairy cows, hogs or hens. There was both a fluid milk plant and a creamery in our town just 5 miles from the farm. A large feed mill and a farm equipment dealership, all gone now. Where I live as a kid there is no commercial farmers, only hobby farms and cash rent cash crop farmers . The area where I farm there are still many farmers milking 50-100 cows, several with robots doing the milking. No hog farms anymore near us. Few feather farms and even fewer cattle finishing set ups. Some part time cow calf and sheep guys playing around. Mostly the land grows wheat, corn and soybeans. Almost Zero chance for a young person to ever start their own farm now. And tough as hell for many established farmers to same in business. Fewer farms and that is the biggest change. And little money to be made for those still hanging in.
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