Guess I'm just to old. I carried a Jersey bull to the sale yesterday. There is only one dairy left in my part of the state. Almost no one around here milks a cow anymore(except me)nor do they want the milk from a home-milked cow. Sale owner says these bulls are a specialty item around here. Wont bring much. I said I understood. When leaving, I noticed a sign on the front gate of the penning barn, We will neither accept nor sell hogs after 1-1-2018.
I got to thinking about that. The next closest sale barn is over 100 miles away. If you sell a hog, it'll most likely be by word of mouth now. So much has changed in the last few years as related to farming and ag in general. The elevators around here only accept grain delivered in a hopper bottom trailer, so the small farmer with a tandem axle truck, farming 40 to 150 acres of grain either goes in debt over his head or pays $$$ someone else to harvest for him.
Sorry about all this whining. I just miss the old days when things were simpler. Where did 1968 go?
I got to thinking about that. The next closest sale barn is over 100 miles away. If you sell a hog, it'll most likely be by word of mouth now. So much has changed in the last few years as related to farming and ag in general. The elevators around here only accept grain delivered in a hopper bottom trailer, so the small farmer with a tandem axle truck, farming 40 to 150 acres of grain either goes in debt over his head or pays $$$ someone else to harvest for him.
Sorry about all this whining. I just miss the old days when things were simpler. Where did 1968 go?