Corn Farmer (1960) 

Good grief, do we EVER need to get back to healthier foods again. The processed crap tastes terrible too more often than not.

No smartphones, no internet. Everything it's a natural and genuine

You obviously don't remember those days. A diet of molasses, bleached white flour, and pig fat. Most men died of a heat attack before they were 70. If you got cancer, you were just fucked.

Oh fuck you had obese people then! My god, there has always been fat people and always will be. There just werent near as many especially in movies, entertainment and in public much. I will agree that processed food and little hard work do exist but shiiiit there were still fat fucks😂

@@kulitputihhatiputih8404 Yeah, and racist.

I started farming in Michigan at age 6 in '54. I started driving a Ford 8N tractor. We raised all types of livestock over time and lost our butt. We farmed about 1400 acres. We ended up being primarily corn farmers. I did everything you see in this farm video including driving those John Deere tractors. I had 9 younger brothers and sisters. I got taken in the draft on a lie in 1967 and sent to the Republic of Vietnam '68. My next door farm neighbor was killed in Vietnam in 1967. Look up Alex Zsigo. The government stole a big swath of our land by eminent domain for I-69 in Michigan. JFK through Orville Freeman ruined our price of White Winter Wheat. That is another corrupt government story. Farming would have been okay but for government interference. The government idea is to keep food prices cheap. So today one has Smithfield hams owned by the Chinese. Most the agricultural chemical companies are foreign owned like Bayer and Helena. The USA patent office is controlled by Serco, a British company put in by Obama. Farming is a bad business unless one has an inheritance.

@@fastsetinthewest politicians on both sides need to be arrested for what they did to this country. The ones that are gone need not be remembered either.

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That has happened all over the country for the last 75 years or so. Sad that so many family farms have been sold out of the family. A farmer used to be able to raise a family on 60 acres, but that has gone to 2,000 acres or more.

Wrong. Still family farm

Finally, some good news! Hope there’s some pheasants around the farm too.

@@sandrabullis1730 do any members of the family shown in the video still farm there?

@@Lauterbach24 The older son was an airline pilot. He died many years ago. The younger son has retired from farming and rents the farm to a local young man.

@@sandrabullis1730 thank you for the information! I appreciate it. I always wonder what happen to the family members and wonder when I watch these old farming videos if the children carry on farming.

@charlir wood To have as a collector piece? Sure! To actually use? No thanks please. Those sliding shoe type planters need *everything* to go right and none of it happens very fast... Now, the mid-70s units, once the world had figured out double disk openers... Those could be reasonably useful today. Heck, the current Deere and CaseIH families of planters are mostly just evolutions of 7000 MaxEmerge or 800 Early Riser units anyway. You could get one of them in serviceable condition and farm simple and probably do fairly well (they're great row units) but a pre-disk opener planter is just going to be an exercise in frustration and plugging if soil conditions aren't absolutely perfect, and forget any sort of conservation tillage trying to use it Sorry if I went off on a rant there, must still have strong feelings over the frustrations we had getting planted this year :)

Huge debts and makes no real money

Probably because tractors are fucking expensive in Europe and farmers don’t get subsidized. Which might be a good thing because giant ass farms can’t survive without subsidies, which farmers don’t get. So COFA’s don’t exist here.

Varied from $1.80 - $3.00 bu. Yields were not as high.

@@glenn6448 Nor the input costs ,2.91 today.

It’s 2022 now and corn is north of $5/bu

In absulute terms corn was definitely higher, however, it is a whole different ball game with a change in yields, machinery and growing technology.

Guys just wanted to make money back then now guys just wanna run a hole county n complain they cant make money

We can't feed the worlds population today like that I can cover way more acres than him and I'm glad

@@jackbarry9469 we can easily feed the world pop like this just need more farmers and less luxury's

Mr. Fahrenheit consumers don’t even want to pay the cost of production now, they definitely wouldn’t with more farmers and more costs

@@mr.fahrenheit6976 whoa this guy cracked the code we are living a lie, farming with the best methods available is just dumb we should use smaller tractors. Like who wants the most efficient and productive farming methods I know i don't cuz itz dum

@@jackbarry9469 World agriculture produces food for 12 billion people and you know how many people there are in the world? answer two questions for yourself who needs such high production. And why, despite her, so many people are dying of hunger read on the Internet greetings, ah and one more thing, does the farmer, despite his hard work, live prosperously ???

Very true. Basics haven’t changed much

Sure don't look like the ones in my pasture now. I remember when Angus cows were short and stumpy as well.

@@Lauterbach24were earlier years angus cattle healthier then ? Angus sure seem large nowadays.

The best time in farming no big million dollar price tag for equipment

i have done it today its a bit smaller but you can hear it

it has i did it

Oof now a days everyone fucks the farmers over, everyone gets away with it. "It ain't honest, but its much"

CoolishBeanz True. In Europe farmers buy land thousands of kilometers away because of the N02 rules, for some reason its cheaper that way. Most people who put rules on farmers don’t know anything about farming.

Have you ever seen a corn field up close? The crops are really far apart! But anyways, they set them far apart because otherwise it’s a waste of seed. When putting it closer together some of them are bound to die.

Yes, that does seem a little low on the population especially if those are 36" rows, but what you must consider is the era. The seeding rate depends upon several factors such as moisture anticipated, fertility of the soil or the use of fertilizer and the hybrid used. I don't know what the moisture for that area is but I am guessing they didn't put on the amount of fertilizer we use today and they didn't have corn hybrids that are as drought resistant as we do now.

Sounds like check row planting. You had a toll of wire with a wire knob twist that tripped the planter to drop seed. After a few rounds you moved it over. It was planted this way so you could cultivate in 2 or 3 directions. This was before good herbicides. The field would look like a checkerboard when done correctly. That many seeds also left things as a hill or mound of corn, how it really grows when left alone.

Or annual budget.

In 1967 corn in my area was $1.07/ bu.

Depends. Back then it was pretty land efficient too. But soil depleted so they used fertilizer this makes it even more efficient.

Still are....

I remember the chemical spray salesman coming around about when I was twelve, he dabbed the Atrazine behind his ears like it was perfume. Wonder what he died from?

@@highnoter1 , geeze who peed in your Cheerios?! Non stop pessimistic from one comment to the next!

@@cdjhyoung Well, considering it was atrazine, he probably turned into a transgender, like it's doing to the frogs.

Try again family farms still make up the vast majority of the farms they are just larger.

I don’t know where you got your info every farm in my area is a family farm including ours and we still have tree rows and windbreaks.

There are still some family farms, but won't be for long. I just read that Bill Gates owns the third largest amount of farmland in the United States. Can we say Hello China soon?

@@deannelson9565 They are larger but that means families have been displaced. The trend will continue until all land is owned by a few. The reaper will be coming for your family land. That is the inevitability of the stratification of wealth.

@@ge-ys1uz It is a simple matter of economics. As wealth stratifies, that is the rich get richer and everyone else falls behind, the rich will trade their money for things of real value. Land has real value whereas money has none. You can't eat money but you can eat the produce from the land. Soon no one except the very rich will own land and therefore the folks who need food will be totally at their mercy. Has anyone ever seen a rich person that cared about anyone else? It's going to be a shit show. Thankfully I'm an old man and will die before the worst happens.

How do you mean?

Bad joke.