Corn Farmer (1960)

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  • Опубликовано: 23 дек 2024

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  • @jackmcgill3150
    @jackmcgill3150 9 месяцев назад +13

    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.

  • @enchantro
    @enchantro Год назад +11

    I LOVE these old agriculture films!❤️

  • @fasx56
    @fasx56 5 лет назад +30

    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.

  • @kingcountyband
    @kingcountyband 4 года назад +58

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

    • @thunderbird1921
      @thunderbird1921 3 года назад +11

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

    • @kulitputihhatiputih8404
      @kulitputihhatiputih8404 Год назад +7

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

    • @nonyadamnbusiness9887
      @nonyadamnbusiness9887 Год назад

      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
      @Hankbhomeless Год назад

      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
      @wayiscute Год назад +4

      @@kulitputihhatiputih8404 Yeah, and racist.

  • @joelee662
    @joelee662 4 года назад +12

    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 👍🇺🇸

  • @tracydiller4492
    @tracydiller4492 6 лет назад +23

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

  • @robertnymand9889
    @robertnymand9889 2 года назад +8

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

  • @anthonybaroni3285
    @anthonybaroni3285 Год назад +3

    What a Great film!

  • @brettmclauglin8574
    @brettmclauglin8574 Год назад +5

    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

  • @tombob671
    @tombob671 4 года назад +22

    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.

  • @neilschnurr5186
    @neilschnurr5186 11 дней назад +1

    That '58 Chevy low cab forward at the 10:10 mark looks like it has a car hub cap on the front wheel. Never saw that before.

  • @revelationakagoldeneagle8045
    @revelationakagoldeneagle8045 9 месяцев назад +2

    Memories of my youth on the farm
    🪶

  • @veronicawest3749
    @veronicawest3749 2 года назад +2

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

  • @cdjhyoung
    @cdjhyoung 4 года назад +19

    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.

  • @Art-is1dg
    @Art-is1dg 3 месяца назад

    God, that IS a beautiful sight, seeing those nice Hereford feeder calves all lined up at the bunk.

  • @cristobalpacheco4202
    @cristobalpacheco4202 4 года назад +38

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

    • @fastsetinthewest
      @fastsetinthewest 3 года назад +6

      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
      @mrbuck5059 3 года назад +4

      @@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.

  • @rhcp4life697
    @rhcp4life697 3 года назад +6

    600 acres in that time was a massive farm!

  • @jackwillie2729
    @jackwillie2729 Год назад +3

    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

  • @dvojkan
    @dvojkan 7 месяцев назад +1

    It is interesting to be seen how far are two corn planted comparing to today's measures. Today's planting is much more dense.

  • @davidmeyers6884
    @davidmeyers6884 4 года назад +26

    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
      @jeffgraves1793 4 года назад +3

      No perfect comment

    • @Lauterbach24
      @Lauterbach24 3 года назад +2

      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.

  • @glenn6448
    @glenn6448 4 года назад +17

    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
      @RJ1999x 3 года назад +1

      Huge debts and makes no real money

  • @gunther482
    @gunther482 4 года назад +13

    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
      @judsonrobinson8659 4 года назад +2

      @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 :)

  • @jackbarry9469
    @jackbarry9469 4 года назад +18

    Those old herefords were short and wide

    • @Lauterbach24
      @Lauterbach24 3 года назад +1

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

    • @suitealek
      @suitealek 9 месяцев назад

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

    • @Lauterbach24
      @Lauterbach24 4 месяца назад +1

      ​@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.

    • @30acreshop_time
      @30acreshop_time 2 дня назад

      Yeah, I bet all the steroids and supplements going around these days changed that.

  • @louislehmann5693
    @louislehmann5693 4 года назад +9

    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
      @cazek445 4 года назад +1

      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.

  • @cementer7665
    @cementer7665 4 года назад +4

    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)).

  • @mihacurk
    @mihacurk 4 года назад +9

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

    • @cazek445
      @cazek445 4 года назад +1

      Very true. Basics haven’t changed much

  • @scottschaeffer8920
    @scottschaeffer8920 4 года назад +25

    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
      @sandrabullis1730 3 года назад +2

      Wrong. Still family farm

    • @scottschaeffer8920
      @scottschaeffer8920 3 года назад +1

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

    • @Lauterbach24
      @Lauterbach24 3 года назад +1

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

    • @sandrabullis1730
      @sandrabullis1730 3 года назад +3

      @@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
      @Lauterbach24 3 года назад +1

      @@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.

  • @jeffgraves1793
    @jeffgraves1793 4 года назад +31

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

    • @jackbarry9469
      @jackbarry9469 4 года назад +6

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

    • @mr.fahrenheit6976
      @mr.fahrenheit6976 4 года назад +11

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

    • @evan5262
      @evan5262 4 года назад +6

      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
      @homelessman2257 4 года назад +2

      @@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
      @kszynio348 4 года назад +5

      @@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 ???

  • @sew1194
    @sew1194 8 месяцев назад +3

    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

  • @farmermatt629
    @farmermatt629 4 года назад +23

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

    • @glenn6448
      @glenn6448 4 года назад +2

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

    • @danb4558
      @danb4558 4 года назад +3

      @@glenn6448 Nor the input costs ,2.91 today.

    • @johnallen5996
      @johnallen5996 2 года назад +1

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

    • @greggergen9104
      @greggergen9104 Год назад +1

      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
      @jacksperf8003 Год назад

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

  • @sadjaxx
    @sadjaxx 5 месяцев назад +1

    Good old Encyclopedia Britannica! I miss it.

  • @Art-is1dg
    @Art-is1dg 3 месяца назад

    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.

  • @richceglinski7543
    @richceglinski7543 9 дней назад

    What was the average yield per acre in 1960?

  • @thomasfogerty3515
    @thomasfogerty3515 2 года назад +2

    be nice if i could hear it!

  • @jeffreyhunt1727
    @jeffreyhunt1727 3 года назад +1

    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
      @cmandrell 2 года назад

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

  • @dougtheviking6652
    @dougtheviking6652 4 года назад +8

    And that my friends. Was the way it was

  • @greggergen9104
    @greggergen9104 3 года назад +1

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

  • @cristobalpacheco4202
    @cristobalpacheco4202 4 года назад +1

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

    • @cazek445
      @cazek445 4 года назад

      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
      @thomassvoboda4747 3 года назад +1

      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
      @thegreenerthemeaner 2 года назад +1

      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.

  • @johnlynn6291
    @johnlynn6291 Год назад

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

  • @planetrob555
    @planetrob555 3 года назад +2

    You know, this audio could be fixed...

  • @robertpayne2717
    @robertpayne2717 3 года назад +1

    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....

  • @marthabecker8734
    @marthabecker8734 3 года назад

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

  • @timhenslee1025
    @timhenslee1025 Год назад

    Just wish you could hear it better

  • @KennyRyman
    @KennyRyman 4 года назад +4

    my Grandad and my uncle did it...

    • @jeffgraves1793
      @jeffgraves1793 4 года назад +2

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

  • @jackiejordan427
    @jackiejordan427 4 года назад

    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!!!

  • @Automedon2
    @Automedon2 4 года назад +1

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

    • @cazek445
      @cazek445 4 года назад +1

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

  • @christinamoneyhan5688
    @christinamoneyhan5688 4 года назад +7

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

  • @moisescorral2058
    @moisescorral2058 4 года назад +4

    It ain't much but its honest work

    • @xXCoolishbeanzXx
      @xXCoolishbeanzXx 4 года назад +2

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

    • @cazek445
      @cazek445 4 года назад +1

      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.

  • @woodhonky3890
    @woodhonky3890 4 года назад +4

    Well, that was real.

  • @delprice3007
    @delprice3007 4 месяца назад

    No ubiquitous high fructose corn syrup

  • @nickkercheval2704
    @nickkercheval2704 3 года назад

    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.

  • @geraldswain3259
    @geraldswain3259 4 года назад +6

    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
      @bushwhackermo 4 года назад +6

      Still are....

    • @cdjhyoung
      @cdjhyoung 4 года назад +4

      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
      @jimsteele7108 4 года назад +2

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

    • @gregorymalchuk272
      @gregorymalchuk272 4 года назад

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

  • @cherokeegotti4903
    @cherokeegotti4903 2 года назад +1

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

  • @billastell3753
    @billastell3753 4 года назад +8

    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
      @deannelson9565 4 года назад +6

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

    • @ddversatile
      @ddversatile 4 года назад +1

      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
      @ge-ys1uz 3 года назад

      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
      @billastell3753 3 года назад

      @@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
      @billastell3753 3 года назад +1

      @@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.

  • @manhoot
    @manhoot 5 лет назад +5

    This is far from "corny"

  • @noubkid_yt174
    @noubkid_yt174 2 года назад

    Bambi fnf

  • @robertkreiling1746
    @robertkreiling1746 Год назад

    No volume , this Sucks

  • @gearjammer4779
    @gearjammer4779 4 года назад +1

    This old video was really “corny”.😁

  • @nozzledrich
    @nozzledrich 9 дней назад

    Who else watched the American Farmer TV show on Sat. mornings at about 5 or 6AM ? I did as an 8 yo growing up in New Jersey in 1966. I'm farming by the square foot these days but the harvests, like my family, have been good to me. GOD BLESS The American farmer and his family. Dont let liberal elite' like Bill Gates and his ilk gobble up family farms across this beautiful and bountiful country. God Bless President Trump.