The perfect MM farming, whats yours? Me and Mowpower

Joe Pro

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So me and Mopower were talking about our "perfect farm idea" With MM's would be. Mine is as follows.

It's November 1967, I have my new 67 670D super with a heat houser hooked to the newer Farmhand Grinder mixer, an RTU hooked to a wagon, and I'm shoveling the ear corn into the mixer. In the background you can see a beautiful Chevy Apache truck. The dog is playing with our herd of 20 cows that we milk and there are a few chickens pecking at the kernels of corn on the ground. There is a little snow in the air but not enough to do any harm. You can see a 4 star and ZB in the barn and the MM dealer rep is standing by the 670 checking it out, making sure we are happy with our new purchase. My wife and little girl and standing by the wagon with coffee for the MM rep and myself I stop to take a break and you can just see the back of the brown mule unit, next to the monitor grain drill in the lean-too attached to the barn. We no longer have the M5 as it was traded in on the 670, and the MM dealer has been trying to get us to demo a U302 super diesel. We grain farm about 85 acres with the MM's and have been talking about buying another 15 acres if we decide to purchase another tractor (per the MM dealer getting us to demo the U302).

This is my idea of my perfect farm, to bad all the BTO's are totally ruining the small "family farm" along with the fact of dealers pushing to sell new bigger equipment and slashing support for the older models. Farming is sadly progressing towards a career, or a business rather than a sweaty, back breaking way of life that so many have enjoyed.
 
Good idea. Mine would be more along mid-1970's with UB, ZB, G 1000, G 750, G 1050 on a 70 cow dairy. Silo filling with uprights. G 1050 on a chopper, G 1000 on a blower, G 750 cutting hay for haylage, and the others chasing wagons.
 
Here is a picture of my memories. The Z pulled a one row
moline picker, the U302 pulled in the wagon and the R ran the
elevator (until the R had carb issues).
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My ideal farm would occur about 1970. I would have a new A4T-1600 with a small bell 800, a G708 diesel, a U302 diesel, 1965 M670 diesel, and a low band G1000 diesel. I would grow corn, cotton, wheat, and cattle down in Texas. With all this farming, I guess I would have some worn-out rare tractors..... but they were built to be used. I know family farms are dying out, but me, my brother, and our dad are still having fun doing it on about 1300 acres. God Bless the farmers!!
 
Well if I could I'd like to be farming back in about 1975 and
have a year or two old a4t1600 and a g1355 for the heavy
tillage work, and a g1000 vista as my planting, sparing tractor
etc, and a m670 for hay and wagons and a ub diesel as my
auger/ yard and wagon tractor
 
I think these great minds are thinking alike...

Farming a couple hundred acres in the 1970s with a Vista, M5, a 670 super, jet star 3 with a loader, a 2890, and raising cattle... Raising feed and cash crops...

A simple neighborhood farmstead that is no longer....
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Great pictures! I wish I would have been born 20 years earlier. So much reminds me of Grandpa's farm in the mid 70's. The best memories from my childhood are from being on the farm spending time on the MM's! Guess that's why I have gotten into buying and restoring tractors now....on my whole 11 acres. Every minute I work I them I am reliving time spent with Grandpa on the farm.
 
Where was that g1000 vista plowing picture taken? I've always liked the looks of the vista and someday hope to find my dads back, also like the brochure that lists the price of the new g900 and g1000 and its kinda amazing almost 50 years later they will bring just as much usually if not more
 
Ive always imagined a farm with a G1350, G950 (flat grilles) M670 Super U302 Super and Jet Star 3 Super, with another 302 or 670 with a loader. Although Ive imagined others as well for particular years of what was available.
 
I like the way you all think. I guess I grew up on such a farm,
didn't always appreciate it at the time. Here's the way I
remember it. Spring 1968, Dad and I are planting corn with the
new M670 Super Diesel and 4 row mounted MM planter. Seed
and fertilizer bags are on the 1951 Studebaker flat bed truck,
and Dad's '59 Chevy Apache is parked in the field. I'm not big
enough to lift the fertilizer bags but I can drive a straight row.
Skipper the black lab dog follows the planter. Grandpa is
working ground with the M5 or UTS that was plowed with a MM
5000 4 bottom plow, later when the corn is up he will cultivate
with the RTE. If we're planting sweet corn we'll hire a custom
harvester to pick it with a FMC picker mounted on a Farmall, but
the grain corn will be harvested with our Uni picker-Shellor.
Grain will be planted with the steel wheel Monitor drill and
harvested with the Uni Combine then we will bale the straw with
the Bale Master 760 and Jet Star Diesel, the Jet has a MM loader
mounted on it. On Sunday we'll go to church in Dad's 1960
Pontiac Ventura. The last year we farmed with all Molines we
had a G706, G1000 Vista, G1355 and M670 and all dad's original
tractors except the M5. That was in 2007 and we bought a 2-
155 White that fall.
 

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