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I have a farm that I would be interested in getting some aerial photos of from the last 15 years. I have tried phone numbers on the back of my home farm pictures I have purchased from a couple of different photographers, however the numbers are disconnected. I have google searched to locate the two photographers with no luck. Any ideas? We are located in Missouri.
 
FSA [Farm Service Agency] for your county,they was consolidated several years ago so you may have to go to another county to find yours
 
FSA office is your best bet. Google Earth program (versions 5 and above) has a Timeline slider that you can view aerials back to the 80's sometimes, based upon if that image is avialable.

I dont think anything is going to get you really close in/specific details, until very recently. Even then, they are grainy for less populated areas. That is why looking at the files at the FSA is better if you want more resolution for older fly overs.
 
A couple of years ago I purchased a picture of my farm from Vintage Aerial. It was pricey. It came framed, but printed on this cardboard stuff with no glass. I guess I am happy with it. It is the oldest aerial photo of the farm so I didn't have a voice if I wanted a picture from that era. I'd do it again just for the value (to me) of seeing what used to be and comparing it to more recent aerials. I've spent hours staring at it.

As I recall it was around $300.
 
You're not going to believe this but it's true. My sister was looking at ebay for things from our area where we grew up (n.e. Indiana). For $10 she got the bid on 100 black and white aerial farm negatives and among those was our farmstead from the early 1950's. Dad bought a picture back then from that negative that was retouched (hand painted to add color).
 
notjustair, We did order one from him, but he only had one picture and if wasn't the best angle.
 
I had come across photos from 1937 and 1967 on a website called Pennpilot, I think it is only of Pennsylvania but maybe they have a link to other states? It was really cool to see things that my grandfather used to talk about, like the orchard and old outbuildings.
Penn Pilot
 
Your county FSA office should be able to get you color, aerial phots going back to the early 1980's. They started flying each county on a yearly basis back then. Prior to that they only did 640 scale B&W every 5 years. They had a machine called a "digitizer" where you could find 4 points on the B&W photo, that matched the same 4 points on the color slides flown that year. You projected the color slide on a glass screen on the digitizer. Then you entered the 4 points off of the B&W, then went to the color slide and entered the same 4 points. This gave you a percentage, if the machine accepted the points, then you could measure acres direct off of the color slide projection. This was very helpful in flood years when odd shaped parts of the fields were planted on a contour.

I was trained on this and used this system for 4 or 5 years. Even though we were FCIC employees, the ASCS folks let us use their system cause they didn't want to mess with us.

Depending on the county, they should have these photos/slides stuck in the back room. (maybe)

Gene
 
farmerjohn - Thanks for the info - I haven't been able to find any farm pictures thru your site for Missouri - just road maps.
 
Try this one in the link below, I found both our farms in it, free, and it was really a trip to see what it was like in 1952. I am told that for NY, there are some in the NYS library, on the web, though I have not tried it yet, a friend said he did, so maybe your state has similar archives somewhere as well. The site below, I typed the address in, and behold, at first I did not recognize anything,then I saw a landmark, wow, really interesting to see how its changed.
NETR
 
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