Posted by Bruce from Can. on November 15, 2020 at 06:30:01 from (70.51.54.32):
In Reply to: farming in the 1970s? posted by swindave on November 15, 2020 at 03:58:43:
My dad switched from a mixed farm operation milking cows to ship cream from, feeding pigs skin and a few hundred laying hens. To just keeping cow/calf beef herd, and growing some spring grain, in 1970. I started high school in 73, and worked after school and weekends, and all summer for a dairy farmer just down the road. I did pretty much everything that could be done on a dairy except chop and plant corn, that was done custom. Milked, forked pens, cleaned stables, washed milkers and bulk tank. All bucket milkers, and flat top milk cooler, no auto wash. Cut , raked and baled thousands of small square bales, drove livestock truck, all for $2.50 per hour. I was one of the few kids at high school that had and bought his own car. Times were good in dairy, and purebred Holstein cows were in hot demand. My boss had a great eye for cattle, and used to show and win, selling purebred Holstein’s brought in as much or more for my boss as the milk. I left after high school, and took work in the city for a couple years. By 1981 interest rates were 20% and times were changing fast. Dairy farms started selling out, I rented a barn and started milking cows on my own. The 70’s were about the best time to farm. Commodity prices were strong, farm land was cheap and readily available to buy or rent. By 1990, the wheels were falling off agriculture.
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