![]() ![]() I want to be the guy with a few hundred acres paid for. Their Dad was focused, and missed out on sharing with the kids the way a normal family farm works? Maybe they didn't have to work for it, so there isn't any emotional attachment? So you work your whole life, and the next generation just cashes it out? There are big operations that work well, but not who I'm jealous of. I wonder if the reason these operations don't seem to get passed on to younger generations is because the kids never got to enjoy farming. I like hearing about these large operations of the past, I don't think that bigger always works better. Bill said go buy every damn calf that walks through the ring and next week they will know who you are. One of the cattle buyers that buys most of the cattle for a feedlot we were hauling into supposedly worked for bill when he was young, bill sent him to a barn to buy and he said he didn’t know what he was doing. ![]() One of the older guys I trucked with said bills brain was in high gear every hour of the day and had a built in calculator. I’m not sure if he was born into much or not, but he owned 10s of thousands of acres from what I’ve heard and had a ~7,000 Head feedlot. He was born in the depression and died a few years back. Some other guys on here know more about him than I do. Hauled fat cattle to Cleveland in their own rail cars. Put all their corn in identical red (wooden ) cribs in decentralized locations and fed it all to cattle. Pohlman Farms of NW OH in the early 1900's. Not much fan fare for the guy now that owns 500 acres free and clear has a shed full of paid for equipment. Interesting.the larger they are the harder they fall Thank you, I'll have to try and Google that to see if I can find that picture. ( logon | register )īig time 70s and 80s operators? Jump to page : 1 2 Now viewing page 2 ![]()
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