Plowed 30 acres I rented from the DNR on the Coralville Reservoir. It flooded and was never planted. Learned the first year that you have nothing till the check is in the pocket.
Next year I got out of High School and rented another 40 and got a crop off of that DNR ground as well.
Bought my first piece of equipment that year. Then added equipment every year. And slowly rented more land.
In 81 I bought 75 acres of land and about lost it in the mid 80's, but I went to work in town and hung on. Raising hogs and cattle helped also. Good thing I was young cause them 100 work weeks would kill me now.
By 1996 I owned all the equipment I needed to farm on my own.Before that I would rent or borrow equipment from dad.
Just a slow steady growth to where I am today.
I learned in the 80's the interest only made the bankers rich. So I try to borrow money as little as possible.
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Today's Featured Article - Grain Threshing in the Early 40's - by Jerry D. Coleman. How many of you can sit there and say that you have plowed with a mule? Well I would say not many, but maybe a few. This story is about the day my Grandfather Brown (true name) decided along with my parents to purchase a new Ford tractor. It wasn't really new except to us. The year was about 1967 and my father found a good used Ford 601 tractor to use on the farm instead of "Bob", our old mule. Now my grandfather had had this mule since the mid 40's and he was getting some age on him. S
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