Posted by john d on December 21, 2009 at 05:26:54 from (69.130.164.18):
In Reply to: ain't it amazing.... posted by rrlund on December 20, 2009 at 14:16:16:
Several good points already made in previous posts. My Dad farmed 120 acres (110 tillable) with a Farmall H. But.....only about 30 acres of that was in corn each year, as we also had oats, hay, and pasture. Today, livestock is essentially gone from this area, so there's no pasture, and almost no fences. Dad did that when he was less than 40. Not many farmers in this area under 60 now. Higher crop yields, a smaller window for planting and harvesting (that Farmall H was sometimes pulling a corn picker into late December or early January) put more pressure on the need for larger equipment. Dad did it with the H, but he would have LOVED to have had a Farmel M instead! Many of those 1940s-1960s farms were operated with "small" equipment because that's all the farmer could afford.
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