It adds richness and interest to our farm history when someone took the time to put on film working farms from a prior generation. As it was in 1960 and is now the farmers of America filled our Grocery Stores with all the good food we take for granted, let us be thankful.
You obviously don't remember those days. A diet of molasses, bleached white flour, and pig fat. Most men died of a heat attack before they were 70. If you got cancer, you were just fucked.
Oh fuck you had obese people then! My god, there has always been fat people and always will be. There just werent near as many especially in movies, entertainment and in public much. I will agree that processed food and little hard work do exist but shiiiit there were still fat fucks😂
I worked summers on my grandpa's farm in creek county ok. After 6 days of long, long hard work putting up hay, at 430am breakfast he said, "well boys we are gonna work a half a day" i was thinking 4 hours he was thinking 12 hours, it still was shorter than yesterday 😜😜😜🤠🤠🤠 Hard work, great times. In the fall i was in shape for football.
Big investment in farm machinery even back then. Crikey,those were some fine Hereford bullocks at the show and stock yards.Great to see those chaps moving the weaners around on horseback as well
This farmer seemed to be pretty up-to-date on his farming techniques except when they were looking at feeding pigs. By 1960 it was well known that a pig crew much better on ground feed that was a mixture of ground corn and ground soybean meal. This mix got up faster gain and more pounds of pork per pound of feed. Just an observation.
I started farming in Michigan at age 6 in '54. I started driving a Ford 8N tractor. We raised all types of livestock over time and lost our butt. We farmed about 1400 acres. We ended up being primarily corn farmers. I did everything you see in this farm video including driving those John Deere tractors. I had 9 younger brothers and sisters. I got taken in the draft on a lie in 1967 and sent to the Republic of Vietnam '68. My next door farm neighbor was killed in Vietnam in 1967. Look up Alex Zsigo. The government stole a big swath of our land by eminent domain for I-69 in Michigan. JFK through Orville Freeman ruined our price of White Winter Wheat. That is another corrupt government story. Farming would have been okay but for government interference. The government idea is to keep food prices cheap. So today one has Smithfield hams owned by the Chinese. Most the agricultural chemical companies are foreign owned like Bayer and Helena. The USA patent office is controlled by Serco, a British company put in by Obama. Farming is a bad business unless one has an inheritance.
@@fastsetinthewest politicians on both sides need to be arrested for what they did to this country. The ones that are gone need not be remembered either.
As a kid dad had the planter in video..if you got in mud an sunk down 9 inches the frame rested on the ground an you were done...planted 1000s of acres with it
I had an uncle that was a corn/dairy farmer. When I saw him in the 70s , everyone else was getting modern with a/c equipped tractors. Not him. He kept going with what he knew. It's all just a memory now. Several hundred acres got divided in the late 80s in northern Indiana. This video sort of shows what he did. Hope this wasn't corny.
That has happened all over the country for the last 75 years or so. Sad that so many family farms have been sold out of the family. A farmer used to be able to raise a family on 60 acres, but that has gone to 2,000 acres or more.
@charlir wood To have as a collector piece? Sure! To actually use? No thanks please. Those sliding shoe type planters need *everything* to go right and none of it happens very fast... Now, the mid-70s units, once the world had figured out double disk openers... Those could be reasonably useful today. Heck, the current Deere and CaseIH families of planters are mostly just evolutions of 7000 MaxEmerge or 800 Early Riser units anyway. You could get one of them in serviceable condition and farm simple and probably do fairly well (they're great row units) but a pre-disk opener planter is just going to be an exercise in frustration and plugging if soil conditions aren't absolutely perfect, and forget any sort of conservation tillage trying to use it Sorry if I went off on a rant there, must still have strong feelings over the frustrations we had getting planted this year :)
@@mr.fahrenheit6976 whoa this guy cracked the code we are living a lie, farming with the best methods available is just dumb we should use smaller tractors. Like who wants the most efficient and productive farming methods I know i don't cuz itz dum
@@jackbarry9469 World agriculture produces food for 12 billion people and you know how many people there are in the world? answer two questions for yourself who needs such high production. And why, despite her, so many people are dying of hunger read on the Internet greetings, ah and one more thing, does the farmer, despite his hard work, live prosperously ???
Farming then in the USA and Germany was so different...The People there in the USA got big Planters, more than one tractor and much else... My Grandpa worked here in Germany in 1960 with Horses and one Tractor 🙈
Probably because tractors are fucking expensive in Europe and farmers don’t get subsidized. Which might be a good thing because giant ass farms can’t survive without subsidies, which farmers don’t get. So COFA’s don’t exist here.
@suitealek angus seem about the same as what they were then in regards to health. I remember as a kid they were short and stumpy, but they have been bred to a larger size now. They make a good cow, but they don't seem to have a mild temperament like a Hereford does.
Pretty good sized operation for that time. (It did not say if the 1700 tons was just the amount of ear corn (68.4#/Bu), or if that included the number of bushels shelled (56#/BU), and would not have included the acres that were chopped for silage (tons per acre)).
@@Lauterbach24 The older son was an airline pilot. He died many years ago. The younger son has retired from farming and rents the farm to a local young man.
@@sandrabullis1730 thank you for the information! I appreciate it. I always wonder what happen to the family members and wonder when I watch these old farming videos if the children carry on farming.
Interesting that he was still "hill-dropping" his corn, instead of drilling it. It is impressive that he had the John Deere hitch that was used to to make two FOUR row 494-495 planters into an EIGHT row, but, from all appearances still on a 40" row spacing. No liquid, or dry fertilizer, so I would think that the saddle tanks were used for the application of either pre-emergent herbicide, or a pesticide.
I would have liked to have rolled up at Mr. Stones farm with a Case 9250, axil flow combine unfolded the folding corn headed and told him to put his 2 row up, let me cut this 15 acres for ya sir, I’ll be done here in bout 30 minutes or less, I bet the look on his face would have been priceless, lol, just a thought, great video though!!!
Have you ever seen a corn field up close? The crops are really far apart! But anyways, they set them far apart because otherwise it’s a waste of seed. When putting it closer together some of them are bound to die.
Yes, that does seem a little low on the population especially if those are 36" rows, but what you must consider is the era. The seeding rate depends upon several factors such as moisture anticipated, fertility of the soil or the use of fertilizer and the hybrid used. I don't know what the moisture for that area is but I am guessing they didn't put on the amount of fertilizer we use today and they didn't have corn hybrids that are as drought resistant as we do now.
Sounds like check row planting. You had a toll of wire with a wire knob twist that tripped the planter to drop seed. After a few rounds you moved it over. It was planted this way so you could cultivate in 2 or 3 directions. This was before good herbicides. The field would look like a checkerboard when done correctly. That many seeds also left things as a hill or mound of corn, how it really grows when left alone.
CoolishBeanz True. In Europe farmers buy land thousands of kilometers away because of the N02 rules, for some reason its cheaper that way. Most people who put rules on farmers don’t know anything about farming.
I never saw either a John Deere or IHC BELLY MOUNT PLANTER IN 8 ROW MOST WIRE EITHER 6 or 4 row but, here in the south Cotton Country ROW SPACING WAS 36 OT 38 INCJES SO AN 8 ROW WOULD HAVE BEEN ALMOST 25 OR 26 FOOT WIDE TOO WIDE FOR SAFE TRANSPORT ON MOST ROADS....
This guy had a heck of an operation for 1960 but there is n way he was covering 600 acres with the equipment I saw. Just saying. I did enjoy the video though.
I remember the chemical spray salesman coming around about when I was twelve, he dabbed the Atrazine behind his ears like it was perfume. Wonder what he died from?
Sadly the family farms are gone and replaced by industrial agri-business tracts. Hedge rows where wildlife could coexist with people ripped out to created mega fields where nothing but a uni-crop grows with aid from chemical agents and plants genetically engineered to tolerate those chemical conditions..
There are still some family farms, but won't be for long. I just read that Bill Gates owns the third largest amount of farmland in the United States. Can we say Hello China soon?
@@deannelson9565 They are larger but that means families have been displaced. The trend will continue until all land is owned by a few. The reaper will be coming for your family land. That is the inevitability of the stratification of wealth.
@@ge-ys1uz It is a simple matter of economics. As wealth stratifies, that is the rich get richer and everyone else falls behind, the rich will trade their money for things of real value. Land has real value whereas money has none. You can't eat money but you can eat the produce from the land. Soon no one except the very rich will own land and therefore the folks who need food will be totally at their mercy. Has anyone ever seen a rich person that cared about anyone else? It's going to be a shit show. Thankfully I'm an old man and will die before the worst happens.
Thank you so much for these old farming videos. I could watch them all day. I've always said i was born about 70 years to late.
It adds richness and interest to our farm history when someone took the time to put on film working farms from a prior generation. As it was in 1960 and is now the farmers of America filled our Grocery Stores with all the good food we take for granted, let us be thankful.
I LOVE these old agriculture films!❤️
look how healthy everyone was!!! no obesity. fresh air, hard work, less sugar and processed food.
Good grief, do we EVER need to get back to healthier foods again. The processed crap tastes terrible too more often than not.
No smartphones, no internet. Everything it's a natural and genuine
You obviously don't remember those days. A diet of molasses, bleached white flour, and pig fat. Most men died of a heat attack before they were 70. If you got cancer, you were just fucked.
Oh fuck you had obese people then! My god, there has always been fat people and always will be. There just werent near as many especially in movies, entertainment and in public much. I will agree that processed food and little hard work do exist but shiiiit there were still fat fucks😂
@@kulitputihhatiputih8404 Yeah, and racist.
This was a great piece of history these people work hard back then they must be in the 90s or they passed away God bless them all 👍🇺🇸
I worked summers on my grandpa's farm in creek county ok. After 6 days of long, long hard work putting up hay, at 430am breakfast he said, "well boys we are gonna work a half a day" i was thinking 4 hours he was thinking 12 hours, it still was shorter than yesterday 😜😜😜🤠🤠🤠
Hard work, great times. In the fall i was in shape for football.
It was a good life! Everyone worked and was happier.
Big investment in farm machinery even back then.
Crikey,those were some fine Hereford bullocks at the show and stock yards.Great to see those chaps moving the weaners around on horseback as well
I love seeing this farm equipment from the past sure don't make it like they use to.Great video really enjoyed it.
This farmer seemed to be pretty up-to-date on his farming techniques except when they were looking at feeding pigs. By 1960 it was well known that a pig crew much better on ground feed that was a mixture of ground corn and ground soybean meal. This mix got up faster gain and more pounds of pork per pound of feed. Just an observation.
That looks like it would have been a good life, hard work but rewarding
I started farming in Michigan at age 6 in '54. I started driving a Ford 8N tractor. We raised all types of livestock over time and lost our butt. We farmed about 1400 acres. We ended up being primarily corn farmers. I did everything you see in this farm video including driving those John Deere tractors. I had 9 younger brothers and sisters. I got taken in the draft on a lie in 1967 and sent to the Republic of Vietnam '68. My next door farm neighbor was killed in Vietnam in 1967. Look up Alex Zsigo. The government stole a big swath of our land by eminent domain for I-69 in Michigan. JFK through Orville Freeman ruined our price of White Winter Wheat. That is another corrupt government story. Farming would have been okay but for government interference. The government idea is to keep food prices cheap.
So today one has Smithfield hams owned by the Chinese. Most the agricultural chemical companies are foreign owned like Bayer and Helena. The USA patent office is controlled by Serco, a British company put in by Obama.
Farming is a bad business unless one has an inheritance.
@@fastsetinthewest politicians on both sides need to be arrested for what they did to this country. The ones that are gone need not be remembered either.
As a kid dad had the planter in video..if you got in mud an sunk down 9 inches the frame rested on the ground an you were done...planted 1000s of acres with it
God, that IS a beautiful sight, seeing those nice Hereford feeder calves all lined up at the bunk.
Memories of my youth on the farm
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I had an uncle that was a corn/dairy farmer. When I saw him in the 70s , everyone else was getting modern with a/c equipped tractors. Not him. He kept going with what he knew. It's all just a memory now. Several hundred acres got divided in the late 80s in northern Indiana. This video sort of shows what he did. Hope this wasn't corny.
No perfect comment
That has happened all over the country for the last 75 years or so. Sad that so many family farms have been sold out of the family. A farmer used to be able to raise a family on 60 acres, but that has gone to 2,000 acres or more.
What a Great film!
Love the old 1148 plate planter and the Johnny popper ... my grandfather ran the same set up
It is interesting to be seen how far are two corn planted comparing to today's measures. Today's planting is much more dense.
I farmed this way into the 80s. Now one farm has all the land of dozens of 60s farms with the massive big equipment
Huge debts and makes no real money
And 15 acres a day was considered good at that time, I combine that many acres taking end rows off of my fields in an hour or so. Times have changed.
@charlir wood To have as a collector piece? Sure! To actually use? No thanks please. Those sliding shoe type planters need *everything* to go right and none of it happens very fast... Now, the mid-70s units, once the world had figured out double disk openers... Those could be reasonably useful today. Heck, the current Deere and CaseIH families of planters are mostly just evolutions of 7000 MaxEmerge or 800 Early Riser units anyway. You could get one of them in serviceable condition and farm simple and probably do fairly well (they're great row units) but a pre-disk opener planter is just going to be an exercise in frustration and plugging if soil conditions aren't absolutely perfect, and forget any sort of conservation tillage trying to use it
Sorry if I went off on a rant there, must still have strong feelings over the frustrations we had getting planted this year :)
600 acres in that time was a massive farm!
Farming should be like this again simple that was a hard Day's work
We can't feed the worlds population today like that I can cover way more acres than him and I'm glad
@@jackbarry9469 we can easily feed the world pop like this just need more farmers and less luxury's
Mr. Fahrenheit consumers don’t even want to pay the cost of production now, they definitely wouldn’t with more farmers and more costs
@@mr.fahrenheit6976 whoa this guy cracked the code we are living a lie, farming with the best methods available is just dumb we should use smaller tractors. Like who wants the most efficient and productive farming methods I know i don't cuz itz dum
@@jackbarry9469 World agriculture produces food for 12 billion people and you know how many people there are in the world? answer two questions for yourself who needs such high production. And why, despite her, so many people are dying of hunger read on the Internet greetings, ah and one more thing, does the farmer, despite his hard work, live prosperously ???
Farming then in the USA and Germany was so different...The People there in the USA got big Planters, more than one tractor and much else... My Grandpa worked here in Germany in 1960 with Horses and one Tractor 🙈
Probably because tractors are fucking expensive in Europe and farmers don’t get subsidized. Which might be a good thing because giant ass farms can’t survive without subsidies, which farmers don’t get. So COFA’s don’t exist here.
Modern farming is still very rewarding but hard work, for all enthusiasts out there. Basics haven’t changed much to be honest.
Very true. Basics haven’t changed much
Those old herefords were short and wide
Sure don't look like the ones in my pasture now. I remember when Angus cows were short and stumpy as well.
@@Lauterbach24were earlier years angus cattle healthier then ? Angus sure seem large nowadays.
@suitealek angus seem about the same as what they were then in regards to health. I remember as a kid they were short and stumpy, but they have been bred to a larger size now. They make a good cow, but they don't seem to have a mild temperament like a Hereford does.
Pretty good sized operation for that time. (It did not say if the 1700 tons was just the amount of ear corn (68.4#/Bu), or if that included the number of bushels shelled (56#/BU), and would not have included the acres that were chopped for silage (tons per acre)).
That land in the film is probably a strip mall, gigantic housing development or a mega dairy now. I’m a hopeless romantic-progress.
Wrong. Still family farm
Finally, some good news! Hope there’s some pheasants around the farm too.
@@sandrabullis1730 do any members of the family shown in the video still farm there?
@@Lauterbach24
The older son was an airline pilot. He died many years ago. The younger son has retired from farming and rents the farm to a local young man.
@@sandrabullis1730 thank you for the information! I appreciate it. I always wonder what happen to the family members and wonder when I watch these old farming videos if the children carry on farming.
And corn was probably worth more then than it is now...
Varied from $1.80 - $3.00 bu. Yields were not as high.
@@glenn6448 Nor the input costs ,2.91 today.
It’s 2022 now and corn is north of $5/bu
In absulute terms corn was definitely higher, however, it is a whole different ball game with a change in yields, machinery and growing technology.
Guys just wanted to make money back then now guys just wanna run a hole county n complain they cant make money
Good old Encyclopedia Britannica! I miss it.
Interesting that he was still "hill-dropping" his corn, instead of drilling it.
It is impressive that he had the John Deere hitch that was used to to make two FOUR row 494-495 planters into an EIGHT row, but, from all appearances still on a 40" row spacing.
No liquid, or dry fertilizer, so I would think that the saddle tanks were used for the application of either pre-emergent herbicide, or a pesticide.
Loved that open station sprayer putting out what im sure were lovely, yet to be declared cancer agents. Poor farmer was sucking them all up
be nice if i could hear it!
And that my friends. Was the way it was
it still is hard work and its still rewarding in our minds, just not in our pockets
Does anyone else ever find yourself reminiscing about times that you didn't even get to live?
Look at the corn fields back then. I bet the yield is triple today
Depends. Back then it was pretty land efficient too. But soil depleted so they used fertilizer this makes it even more efficient.
Well, that was real.
my Grandad and my uncle did it...
The best time in farming no big million dollar price tag for equipment
You know, this audio could be fixed...
it has i did it
I would have liked to have rolled up at Mr. Stones farm with a Case 9250, axil flow combine unfolded the folding corn headed and told him to put his 2 row up, let me cut this 15 acres for ya sir, I’ll be done here in bout 30 minutes or less, I bet the look on his face would have been priceless, lol, just a thought, great video though!!!
He said 4 corn seeds every 3feet, I wonder why so far apart? Thanks
Have you ever seen a corn field up close? The crops are really far apart! But anyways, they set them far apart because otherwise it’s a waste of seed. When putting it closer together some of them are bound to die.
Yes, that does seem a little low on the population especially if those are 36" rows, but what you must consider is the era. The seeding rate depends upon several factors such as moisture anticipated, fertility of the soil or the use of fertilizer and the hybrid used. I don't know what the moisture for that area is but I am guessing they didn't put on the amount of fertilizer we use today and they didn't have corn hybrids that are as drought resistant as we do now.
Sounds like check row planting. You had a toll of wire with a wire knob twist that tripped the planter to drop seed. After a few rounds you moved it over. It was planted this way so you could cultivate in 2 or 3 directions. This was before good herbicides. The field would look like a checkerboard when done correctly. That many seeds also left things as a hill or mound of corn, how it really grows when left alone.
It ain't much but its honest work
Oof now a days everyone fucks the farmers over, everyone gets away with it. "It ain't honest, but its much"
CoolishBeanz True. In Europe farmers buy land thousands of kilometers away because of the N02 rules, for some reason its cheaper that way. Most people who put rules on farmers don’t know anything about farming.
Too bad no one took the time to mention the price per ton or bushel.
Or annual budget.
In 1967 corn in my area was $1.07/ bu.
No ubiquitous high fructose corn syrup
Just wish you could hear it better
I never saw either a John Deere or IHC BELLY MOUNT PLANTER IN 8 ROW MOST WIRE EITHER 6 or 4 row but, here in the south Cotton Country ROW SPACING WAS 36 OT 38 INCJES SO AN 8 ROW WOULD HAVE BEEN ALMOST 25 OR 26 FOOT WIDE TOO WIDE FOR SAFE TRANSPORT ON MOST ROADS....
Is it possible to re-upload this with better audio? I've got it cranked up to the max and the narrator is barely audible
i have done it today its a bit smaller but you can hear it
This guy had a heck of an operation for 1960 but there is n way he was covering 600 acres with the equipment I saw. Just saying. I did enjoy the video though.
Don’t tell me you’re hungry because I already know. Silly men
Does anybody know what brand of sprayer that is at 5:20?
I had to laugh , in the spraying scenes not one mask in sight ,can you immagine that today !!!....most of those sprays then were highly toxic.
Still are....
I remember the chemical spray salesman coming around about when I was twelve, he dabbed the Atrazine behind his ears like it was perfume. Wonder what he died from?
@@highnoter1 , geeze who peed in your Cheerios?!
Non stop pessimistic from one comment to the next!
@@cdjhyoung
Well, considering it was atrazine, he probably turned into a transgender, like it's doing to the frogs.
Sadly the family farms are gone and replaced by industrial agri-business tracts. Hedge rows where wildlife could coexist with people ripped out to created mega fields where nothing but a uni-crop grows with aid from chemical agents and plants genetically engineered to tolerate those chemical conditions..
Try again family farms still make up the vast majority of the farms they are just larger.
I don’t know where you got your info every farm in my area is a family farm including ours and we still have tree rows and windbreaks.
There are still some family farms, but won't be for long. I just read that Bill Gates owns the third largest amount of farmland in the United States. Can we say Hello China soon?
@@deannelson9565 They are larger but that means families have been displaced. The trend will continue until all land is owned by a few. The reaper will be coming for your family land. That is the inevitability of the stratification of wealth.
@@ge-ys1uz It is a simple matter of economics. As wealth stratifies, that is the rich get richer and everyone else falls behind, the rich will trade their money for things of real value. Land has real value whereas money has none. You can't eat money but you can eat the produce from the land. Soon no one except the very rich will own land and therefore the folks who need food will be totally at their mercy. Has anyone ever seen a rich person that cared about anyone else? It's going to be a shit show. Thankfully I'm an old man and will die before the worst happens.
This is far from "corny"
Bambi fnf
No volume , this Sucks
This old video was really “corny”.😁
How do you mean?
Bad joke.