The pumpkins over here all go to Princeville. Literally thousands of truckloads of pumpkins pass through Farmington in the fall going to the canery from somewhere south of us near Havanna. I think the princeville canery is owned by the Green Giant people. I have seen these pumpkins up close and they are nothing like Jack o lantern pumpkins we are used to. You could beat them with a baseball bat and not hurt them much. They have had the occasional accident where a truck overturns and they just bring a loader and pick them up. The green ones are just not as ripe as the others. My guess is that the pumpkins are raised here because of the location of the cannerys and the irrigated ground located nearby. If I were to guess, I would say 90% of the pumpkins rasied in IL go to either the canery in morton or princeville. No seed corn anymore. They took it out of here in 98 and went down to irrigated ground in Mason county. Pioneer grew alot of seed starting at rt 78 and stretching west towards fariview. They have teased us a couple of times with bringing it back but it hasnt happened yet. There are a few of us raising seed beans for Pioneer but it isnt nearly as lucrative as growing corn for them. Glad everyone enjoyed the pics. bill
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Today's Featured Article - A Lifetime of David Brown Tractors - by Samuel Kennedy. I was born in 1950 and reared on my family�s 100 acre farm. It was a fairly typical Northern Ireland farm where the main enterprise was dairying but some pigs, poultry and sheep were also kept. Potatoes were grown for sale and oats were grown to be used for cattle and horse feeding. Up to about 1958 the dairy cows were fed hay with some turnips and after that grass silage was the main winter feed. That same year was the last in which flax was grown on the farm. Flax provided the fibre which w
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