One More Year On The Family Farm (1977)
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- Analyzes alternatives in the farming profession in the 1970's. Expresses the opinions and values of two families which exemplify the changes occurring in farming.
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Alot of hard work and worries but was a great era in farming
Somethings don’t change. Land is always too expensive, margins are tight, weather is an influence. Our service providers are close at least.
I tried to find something about this family and farm, but you can only find something about Coronet who used to make short documentaries for the education sector, the film in general. The production company, the interviewee, well and in the film itself the note that it is somewhere in the east, New Jersey, New York or maybe Pennsylvania and that the family is probably called Hughes. Too bad, I would also have been very interested in what has become of them and the farm. Yes, somehow it works especially there.
I can't say why, but somehow you would be happy that their farm has developed well.
Somehow the film reminds me of my childhood in the 70s on my grandparents' small farm...
Maybe someone here knows more about it...
Also, I'd love to know 47 years later how everybody is doing and if the farm is still extant?
me too brother. beautiful family...
Land prices are what is keeping me from starting my own farm today in 2024. And if I ever do one day I will still continue to drive a truck also.
Save your money, be ready and dont let anybody tell you that land prices Never come down, saw it twice in my lifetime where I grew up. And both times yes they went back up more.
And after all of the calls of "there arent gonna be anymore farmers"! The lesson that I learned is somebodies gonna do it guaranteed but there was no guarantee that I would have the priviledge. Good Luck.
@@mer58lin appreciate the advice!
Surge buckets and step saver,nice
I would surely like to know more about the first family with the tie stall barn. I hope their son was able to make it. I know you've gotta spend money to make money but the I agree with the father's standpoint of not wanting more debt and being happy raising a family and growing crops and milking cows. Any information on the first family would be very appreciated!
as a farmer I have to add this did anyone else notice something else that hasn't changed the wife of the big free stall farm said it " there's too much milk on the market" her husband just like all big farms today " we are adding cows" well genius why do you think your prices are so low and your expenditures are so high? you have successfully flooded no pun intended your own market by being overly greedy.
This is where farming has went wrong every other profession gets a pay rise as time goes on but farming you have a huge financial outlay and instead of getting a pay rise you just keep trying to do more ,work harder, cut the profit margin tighter as time goes on while cost go up surely im not the only one thats sees what is wrong here.
That is about the direction it has went sadly
The most powerful part of the whole show is the intentional transition to the distaste for milk by the powers that be..the old timers that drug their feet on technology were right and they got punished for it
As soon as the gummint gets involved in any endeavor the problems begin in earnest. They create more problems than they solve.
Agreed
It’s been prolific all round the world !
Wow! 47 years ago and very, very interesting. This is a tough business. I always respected farmers but this old video turns that up 100%.
Been there, done that.......80's.......Lost the Shirt!
You have been on that farm in the 80s?
@@Christian-1- moved there from grandpas farm in '69. Things were good/ok until the mid '80s.
Graduated in '76 and bought a herd of gernseys to put in with Dads.
PBB, drought and a tornado didnt help.
Mom passing away at 49 took the rest. Stayed as long as I could then worked in town to try to keep it.
Left at 29 and built the career that I retired from without the farm.....still got a 560 Farmall though.
Sorry to run on like that, Thanks for askin.
@@Christian-1- No Sir that video wasnt about me personally, I was just commenting on it like others.
@@Christian-1- Dad eventually remarried....the new wife got it.
The farm never leaves you, the spring and fall are the hardest for me even after being gone 30+ years.
Be Well Sir,Thank You.
Me too brother, 1980s agriculture the worst and the 90s no picnic either
Tough work in the dairy…rain,shine, sick, half dead but your ass still has to get out there and milk! In my area we used to have over 20 thriving dairy farms. All hardworking great families. Now there are two left in the county….im friends with both of them and they are struggling and both say you just don’t make shit anymore selling milk…we do have one the county over from me that is a fully robotic operation using the lehly system or whatever it’s called I believe and they seem to be doing pretty good!
I’m willing to bet both of these farms went out of business years and years ago.
YES MOST PROBABLY!!
One was sadly too small unless they wrre able to expand successfully and the other was trying to grow too fast it seemed like notice the eye bags under the bigger guys whole family they were running the sharp edge.
Refer to the Shawn Ryan show, for information on China buying up the USA’s farmland
How was it possible for his grandfather to be a civil war vet? Both grandfather and dad had to be really old.
Today in 2024, doesn't China own a very significant % of American farmland?
Yep, and on the flipside I think nobody can buy land or buildings in China, it's all owned by the ruling governing body.
@@mutalix Ya, this is tough to imagine. At age 60, I'm simply not sure where this country is heading, but I'm not liking it so far.
chinese investors & companies own a fraction of a % of american farmland, ~384,000 acres in a country with 878.6 million acres of farmland.
How many factories in China are American owned?
Some, but Bill Gates owns the most .