Re: Anybody in Mich. U/P?

Posted by jdemaris on May 01, 2005 at 07:21:21 from (209.23.31.63):

In Reply to: Re: Anybody in Mich. U/P? posted by willyz on May 01, 2005 at 05:29:27:

Thanks for the info, it's is interesting and also sounds familiar. I live in dairy farm country in Otsego Co., NY. There is also an Otsego Co. in Michigan, named after our county. In regard to this area, maybe I should say "former" dariy country. Most farms are either gone, or dying. I can't blame the local County government Agricultural-extension for the problem, but they certainly have given some bad advice over the years. They get most of their info from New York agricultural colleges. A few farms are getting bought by Amish families who follow their own advice and seem to do well enough to get by. I just met with a new family, they are migrating from the state of Maryland. Seems farming has died there and land and taxes are too high.
We almost bought a defunct farm in Posen - but the price was more than I wanted to pay. It had a potato barn on the property which I had never seen before. Also had a large log home that had been covered with vinyl siding. The guy selling it seemed to think the new vinyl siding was a selling point - whereas - if we'd bought the place I would have immediately torn it all off.
I used to live in Florida and Chester, New York which sounds similar to your story about Posen -except the Polish people there grew onions and lettuce instead of potatos. It was there that I first became interested in older farm equipment. Most of the Polish farmers, working in the very soft "black dirt" used Deere crawlers with wide "swamp pads" for spring plowing, and two wheeled Planet Junior walk-behind tractors and planters in the onion-set beds. That was in the early 70s, I think the farms are all gone now.

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