HDRider
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Today I was driving through the farm land where I grew up, saying hello to the spirits that live there. I saw one of the guys that bought the parcel my dad farmed. He is a horse hay guy. He grows some nice Bermuda horse hay. I wanted to get his phone number to get advice on hay. He said he got almost 100 bales to an acre, I am not sure how much a bale weighs. It is the big square bales.
As we were talking I mentioned that I always heard that the land that Dad and 6 or 7 others families farmed would eventually go to the university of Missouri when the last of the families left the farm. All of us share cropped the land. Three generations of my family did. This goes back to when folks used mules to farm. Dad worked in a local factory and farmed about 300 acres. Dad quit farming in 1974.
He told me the proceeds of the sale, about 2,000 acres, did indeed go to the university of Missouri.
Most of the land is now put to grade under irrigation. The two or three that bought it farm peanuts, rice and soybeans.
As we were talking I mentioned that I always heard that the land that Dad and 6 or 7 others families farmed would eventually go to the university of Missouri when the last of the families left the farm. All of us share cropped the land. Three generations of my family did. This goes back to when folks used mules to farm. Dad worked in a local factory and farmed about 300 acres. Dad quit farming in 1974.
He told me the proceeds of the sale, about 2,000 acres, did indeed go to the university of Missouri.
Most of the land is now put to grade under irrigation. The two or three that bought it farm peanuts, rice and soybeans.