Never say never when it comes to a major correction in land prices. Before the spike in inflation happened a couple years ago the so called experts were saying that we would never again see inflation like what was seen during the 1970's. As to the 1980's it was not just about dummies with no financial sense. Quite a number of farmers got caught in the wrong point of their personal debt cycle. They had just taken on new acreage when the grain embargo happened in 1980. Corn and wheat went from 3.00 dollars per bushel to under 2.00 dollars per bushel. As to the 1930's some were pushed out due to a couple or more poor growing seasons. The depressed commodity prices left no room to cover a drought, sickness in the family, or failure of a bank or debtor to the farm. For that matter I know of a man who lost his farm around 1990 because his son's illness caused his personal debt to balloon into hundreds of thousands of dollars which was a lot of money then.
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Today's Featured Article - A Cautionary Tale - by Ian Minshull. In the early 1950s my father bought an Allis Chalmers B and I used it for all the row crop work with the mangolds and potatoes, rolling and the haymaking on our farm. The farm and the Allis were sold and I have spent a lifetime working on farms throughout the country. I promised myself that one day I would own an Allis. That time event
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