Posted by The tractor vet on December 04, 2019 at 09:03:08 from (104.179.81.68):
In Reply to: Potato Harvest posted by Bob Bancroft on December 04, 2019 at 00:10:43:
Tater farming was big in my area back in the fifty's into the early eighty's . My one uncle was into it big time . Growing up that was all i knew about farming and spent many hours doing so . From the days of the bushel baskets and herd of migrant and local people hand filling bushel baskets in the field to the brand new potato harvester digging semi sorting in the field and loading on to a fleet of old two ton trucks with homemade self unloading bed , to the monster 806 showing up in sept of 63 . Started m tractor driving at the age of seven dragging a four section spike tooth behind and oliver O C 3 crawler over the harvested tater fields getting them ready for winter wheat as that was the rotation wheat and taters and the only baling was straw . By the end of the eighty's there was not one tater farm left around here . Dairy is going the same way as all the small guys with the 20 to 100 head herds are now gone .
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