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.

look how healthy everyone was!!! no obesity. fresh air, hard work, less sugar and processed food.

@thunderbird1921

2 жыл бұрын

Good grief, do we EVER need to get back to healthier foods again. The processed crap tastes terrible too more often than not.

@kulitputihhatiputih8404

10 ай бұрын

No smartphones, no internet. Everything it's a natural and genuine

@nonyadamnbusiness9887

9 ай бұрын

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.

@Hankbhomeless

8 ай бұрын

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😂

@wayiscute

8 ай бұрын

@@kulitputihhatiputih8404 Yeah, and racist.

I LOVE these old agriculture films!❤️

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.

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

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.

It was a good life! Everyone worked and was happier.

Memories of my youth on the farm 🪶

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 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 👍🇺🇸

That looks like it would have been a good life, hard work but rewarding

@fastsetinthewest

2 жыл бұрын

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.

@mrbuck5059

2 жыл бұрын

@@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.

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.

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

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 love seeing this farm equipment from the past sure don't make it like they use to.Great video really enjoyed it.

What a Great film!

Love the old 1148 plate planter and the Johnny popper ... my grandfather ran the same set up

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.

@jeffgraves1793

4 жыл бұрын

No perfect comment

@Lauterbach24

3 жыл бұрын

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.

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 🙈

@cazek445

3 жыл бұрын

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.

Farming should be like this again simple that was a hard Day's work

@jackbarry9469

4 жыл бұрын

We can't feed the worlds population today like that I can cover way more acres than him and I'm glad

@mr.fahrenheit6976

4 жыл бұрын

@@jackbarry9469 we can easily feed the world pop like this just need more farmers and less luxury's

@evan5262

4 жыл бұрын

Mr. Fahrenheit consumers don’t even want to pay the cost of production now, they definitely wouldn’t with more farmers and more costs

@homelessman2257

4 жыл бұрын

@@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

@kszynio348

4 жыл бұрын

@@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 ???

I farmed this way into the 80s. Now one farm has all the land of dozens of 60s farms with the massive big equipment

@RJ1999x

3 жыл бұрын

Huge debts and makes no real money

600 acres in that time was a massive farm!

And corn was probably worth more then than it is now...

@glenn6448

4 жыл бұрын

Varied from $1.80 - $3.00 bu. Yields were not as high.

@danb4558

3 жыл бұрын

@@glenn6448 Nor the input costs ,2.91 today.

@johnallen5996

2 жыл бұрын

It’s 2022 now and corn is north of $5/bu

@greggergen9104

11 ай бұрын

In absulute terms corn was definitely higher, however, it is a whole different ball game with a change in yields, machinery and growing technology.

@jacksperf8003

11 ай бұрын

Guys just wanted to make money back then now guys just wanna run a hole county n complain they cant make 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.

@judsonrobinson8659

4 жыл бұрын

@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 :)

That land in the film is probably a strip mall, gigantic housing development or a mega dairy now. I’m a hopeless romantic-progress.

@sandrabullis1730

3 жыл бұрын

Wrong. Still family farm

@scottschaeffer8920

3 жыл бұрын

Finally, some good news! Hope there’s some pheasants around the farm too.

@Lauterbach24

3 жыл бұрын

@@sandrabullis1730 do any members of the family shown in the video still farm there?

@sandrabullis1730

3 жыл бұрын

@@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.

@Lauterbach24

3 жыл бұрын

@@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.

Modern farming is still very rewarding but hard work, for all enthusiasts out there. Basics haven’t changed much to be honest.

@cazek445

3 жыл бұрын

Very true. Basics haven’t changed much

Those old herefords were short and wide

@Lauterbach24

3 жыл бұрын

Sure don't look like the ones in my pasture now. I remember when Angus cows were short and stumpy as well.

@suitealek

2 ай бұрын

@@Lauterbach24were earlier years angus cattle healthier then ? Angus sure seem large nowadays.

And that my friends. Was the way it was

be nice if i could hear it!

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)).

How about boosting the volume and re-uploading? I can hardly hear it.

Does anyone else ever find yourself reminiscing about times that you didn't even get to live?

it still is hard work and its still rewarding in our minds, just not in our pockets

my Grandad and my uncle did it...

@jeffgraves1793

4 жыл бұрын

The best time in farming no big million dollar price tag for equipment

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!!!

It ain't much but its honest work

@xXCoolishbeanzXx

4 жыл бұрын

Oof now a days everyone fucks the farmers over, everyone gets away with it. "It ain't honest, but its much"

@cazek445

3 жыл бұрын

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.

Well, that was real.

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

@cmandrell

Жыл бұрын

i have done it today its a bit smaller but you can hear it

You know, this audio could be fixed...

@cmandrell

Жыл бұрын

it has i did it

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....

He said 4 corn seeds every 3feet, I wonder why so far apart? Thanks

@cazek445

3 жыл бұрын

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.

@thomassvoboda4747

3 жыл бұрын

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.

@thegreenerthemeaner

2 жыл бұрын

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.

Too bad no one took the time to mention the price per ton or bushel.

@daniellebradley2728

4 жыл бұрын

Or annual budget.

@larryf.2314

4 жыл бұрын

In 1967 corn in my area was $1.07/ bu.

Just wish you could hear it better

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.

Look at the corn fields back then. I bet the yield is triple today

@cazek445

3 жыл бұрын

Depends. Back then it was pretty land efficient too. But soil depleted so they used fertilizer this makes it even more efficient.

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.

@bushwhackermo

4 жыл бұрын

Still are....

@cdjhyoung

4 жыл бұрын

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?

@jimsteele7108

4 жыл бұрын

@@highnoter1 , geeze who peed in your Cheerios?! Non stop pessimistic from one comment to the next!

@gregorymalchuk272

3 жыл бұрын

@@cdjhyoung Well, considering it was atrazine, he probably turned into a transgender, like it's doing to the frogs.

Does anybody know what brand of sprayer that is at 5:20?

Don’t tell me you’re hungry because I already know. Silly men

This is far from "corny"

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..

@deannelson9565

4 жыл бұрын

Try again family farms still make up the vast majority of the farms they are just larger.

@ddfarmer123

4 жыл бұрын

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.

@ge-ys1uz

3 жыл бұрын

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?

@billastell3753

3 жыл бұрын

@@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.

@billastell3753

3 жыл бұрын

@@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.

Bambi fnf

This old video was really “corny”.😁

@jimsteele7108

4 жыл бұрын

How do you mean?

@gregkortbein5108

Жыл бұрын

Bad joke.

No volume , this Sucks