Oaktree
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Yes it is. Small scale family farms haven't really been viable in this neck of the woods for a loong time, so there are a lot of old falling down barns around.
Life on the farm
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Buckeye,
I was born in Marietta and raised in Caldwell, Noble County. Your story makes me homesick. Love the pictures of the farm.
A word of encouragement, retire and spend the time with your dad. No matter what happens he will love you for it
I was born in Marietta and raised in Caldwell, Noble County. Your story makes me homesick. Love the pictures of the farm.
A word of encouragement, retire and spend the time with your dad. No matter what happens he will love you for it
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buckeyefarmer
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I know the area well.
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This video is attached because of the story it tells. It's Kate's Ag site and she is from a farm family that's grown small grains, etc for maybe 5(?) generations. She's only 17 but going on 40 in true grit and gumption. Their farm is "dryland" in that there is limited rainfall and no irrigation. This year has been a bad drought.
Kate is interviewing a custom harvester from Kansas that travels with the harvest from down south up to the Dakotas with several combines, people and parts in tow. He is cutting Kate's family's 1000 acres of lentils. That's where your lentils come from.
It's a good interview because it's so descriptive of the custom harvest and farm lifestyle as well as the hidden gem of the two daughters in the video. The youngest daughter is so excited to be there she just can't stop smiling. Wow, cute. I sense future farmers or custom harvesters down the road. Women are outliving the men and running farms and young women have discovered farm life is a pretty good life after all.
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2LaneCruzer
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That looks like a wood burning stove; I recall my Grandmother cooking on one similar to that. Quite a chore with a family of nine. They later ran a natural gas line through the farm, so they got free natural gas for cooking and heating...a life saver.
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buckeyefarmer
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Yes, a wood burner kitchen stove.
grsthegreat
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I lived in lubbock from 1980 to 1982. Back than, all the fields were cotton. Not sure if its still like that, but judging from this video they are. Hope so, here in north idaho, all the grass farmers in the prairie have sold out to developers, and the only thing growing out here are houses. It sucks.
2LaneCruzer
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I went on a wheat harvest; 1959. We started West of Enid, and went North up into Kansas, where we spent the most time. We had the old open cab Gleaner combines, and you ate a lot of dust, especially when you had 3 or 4 combines in the field. I drove a truck pulling a trailer when we were on the road; and started out driving a truck to the elevator. I kept getting lost, so they put me on the combine. We slept in an old school bus converted into a bunk house.
Made a few bucks that Summer, but I felt that I more than earned them. They fed us well, but life wasn't easy. Most farmers had a make shift shower...like a 55 gallon barrel on stilts for a bit of personal hygiene, but if you weren't first in line, the sun warmed water was gone and you took a cold shower...and believe me, you needed it. The life of a farmer was hard in those days; and although I loved it for the most part, this particular harvest convinced me that an education was my best career path.
Made a few bucks that Summer, but I felt that I more than earned them. They fed us well, but life wasn't easy. Most farmers had a make shift shower...like a 55 gallon barrel on stilts for a bit of personal hygiene, but if you weren't first in line, the sun warmed water was gone and you took a cold shower...and believe me, you needed it. The life of a farmer was hard in those days; and although I loved it for the most part, this particular harvest convinced me that an education was my best career path.