Living In The Plains States: Meat And Grain (1974)
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- Опубліковано 17 лис 2024
- Surveys the geographic, economic, and cultural activities in the North Central States. A corn belt farmer, a wheat belt farm implement dealer, and a cereal mill worker give their impressions of life in the Plains States.
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I. Planted my first corn crop in the spring of 1974 with an 806 and a 4 row planter. Harvested with a JD 95. I don’t think of that as “The good old days”. BTW, getting ready to plant my 51st crop!
Those were good times back then for sure
Same here. Started in 10th grade with rented 7 acres.
I miss the old farmers of that time they were and still are my favorite people who were tough stubborn hard working but were so caring
Watching this video makes me realize just how old I am. I remember seeing those flat screen John Deere combines and 4630s just like that one in the video sitting on our local Deere dealer's lot when I was a kid.
I was driving through rural Iowa a few months ago on business and commented to my coworker "I bet it was amazing to grow up in this area in the 50s or 60s". Yes, those boys busted their butts but imagine the HS football games, the drive in movies, the soda fountain downtown, the state fair, etc.
They still have all of the things you mentioned.
No they don't!! That life is gone with the WIND!!!
Above is from Scott Thompson.
And don't forget driving those 50's cars.
Good food then too !
And just a few years later the 80s farm crisis where loans and banks ruined many family farms.
all by design and you have these same farmers (past and present) voting for the same ones who put them out of business or want them out of business.. They traded believing the bible for the tv.. pretty sad
I don’t know about anywhere else but my dad said here in Michigan we had some wet falls here in the late 80s which caused farmers to abandon their crops in the fields because they couldn’t harvest them
@Cameron McConnachie we farm near Green Bay Wisconsin. We didn't abandon our crops because we had to feed our dairy cows. But we sure did have a hell of a hard time getting those crops in!
@@repairmanjoe8081 I was a teenager in the late 80's and not many 4wd tractors back then where I grew up. It was common to have 2 tractors chained together pulling the forage harvester to try and get things done. I have not seen that done in 30 years since
Debt is dumb cash is king. Farmers still taking on massive debt loads and obviously never learned a lesson
The "automatic transmission" shown is a Syncro-Range.
disappointing, hoping for a powershift in that sweet hiniker cab
@@stonestadheim7381yup I had the same thought
@@stonestadheim7381 There wasn't anything "sweet" about those Hiniker cabs. There were a couple of 4020s in our neighborhood that were bought new with them circa 1972. Those noisy cabs were removed and tossed in a fence row 30-40 years ago. Both tractors are still in use with row crop fenders on them.
@@trevorn9381 compared to the other aftermarket cabs of that era, they were much higher quality and not any louder than a hinson
I remember when the John Deere guys wore the yellow and green uniform. Just traded tractors at John Deere last week. They have come a long way since this was made. I'm not sure it's all for the better.
You will probably wish you had kept whatever you traded. Yes the new ones start faster, and ride much nicer than the old Sound Gard tractors from the 70s and 80s and the cabs are quieter and there is no door post, exhaust pipe or air intake stack to look around but those old ones were much easier to fix. I'd rather have that old 4630 shown sitting on the dealer lot in this video than a brand new computerized, emission, controlled 6R series but I am now an old coot like the old farmers I remember who were still running old Poppin Johnnies from the 1930s - 1950s when I was a kid in the 70s. I thought they were backwards as Hell back then and the young farmers driving the newest and the latest green machines from JD probably feel the same way about me now. 🤣
In the future old iron will keep us alive!@trevorn9381
@trevorn9381 it was just a little guy, 3005 basic loader, and mower. Needed a little bigger tractor, so now it's a 4310 with a loader, forks, and backhoe, kept my brush hog backblade, plow, cultivator, and harrow, I mow around the house with a 1023, just needed at little bigger utility tractor and a backhoe for some projects, and want the 1023 kept as just a lawn mower. The stuff from the 70s was good straightforward, and I did my research and shopped around, but I am retired. We just have 13 acres. The closest thing to real farming that I do is drive a truck during harvest for my neighbor. I get what you are saying and agree with it.
@@trevorn9381I agree. We have a new track tractor and a old 4440 and I’ll take that sound gaurd any day. Awesome ole tractor
In the 70's I made three summer harvest runs and one crew I worked with had 7700 combines. Good machines. In the late 60's I worked for a relative of mine
for two summers and spent those summers on a John Deere 820 tractor. Good times. Thanks for posting this video. For some reason, the audio goes away at 11:05
Just fascinating.
In the Caribbean my island had a Banana Belt which was really booming before the year 2000 after that due to the change in government production plummeted to nearly half of its local yield.
Seems at the last part of the video lost audio
watching this makes me suddenly feel old. we had IH 504, 706, JD 4430 and a Ford 4500 doing dairy here in Maine. the 1970s were good, but everything tanked in the 1980s. you can still drive around here today and see a lot of caved in dairy barn, crumbling silos and grown-in fields.
The good ole days
True
Not really mate looks more like hard old fuckin days.
Better times on the farm back then
@@weirdo1083that’s what made em so good. You felt good about your self after all that work at the end of the day. And you appreciated what you had a lot more than nowadays. Everyone has everything handed to em anymore. People complain about having to go to work to put 40 hours in when these farmers we’re putting 90+ hour work weeks.
Look how straight those corn rows were. No GPS!!
That’s the sickest sounding Farmall 806 I ever heard! LOL
The black smoke is missing, I ran 2 of them and both looked like it burned coal
That's a gas 806, no wonder it's sick.
@@deanpahl8591she’s definitely a diesel
@@loganbeedy5950no it’s a gasser, notice it’s gurgly sound aside from a smooth rumble of a diesel
@@30acreshop_time look at the motor during the scene of it pulling out of the field or when it’s baling in the field, there’s no carburetor on it, it’s definitely a diesel. But the sounds don’t match it, almost sounds like a 2 banger Deere sound got overlayed over the 806
Thanks Very enjoyable
The inflection point when centralization really took hold and the family farm got the boot
Gracias por el vídeo. Thank you for the vidéo
Look at the hands..wrists.. Arms....of these hardworking farmers ....simply incredible how hard they worked....
4:17 that’s RDO equipment! They have stores all over the U.S. now. I believe that building was in Casselton ND. They had a presentation in Auto Tech in my school like a month ago, and talked about all the history of the company, and they showed that picture.
great film shows the way it was 50+ years ago
Thank you!
Great music in film!
2:08 The loops of twine hanging from the tensioning cranks is very familiar to me. Aftermath of missed knots and broken bales of hay that are fed back into the baler, with the twine retrieved so it doesn't tangle in the pickup. Still plan on making bales with the IH in 2024.
I wish I grew up in these farmlands instead of the city dense slums. What a difference of living.
The "packing house" in Wichita, KS, looks a whole hell of a lot like the Exchange Building at the stockyards in SOUTH Omaha.
My thoughts exactly!
That’s not the packing house in Wichita. It’s all gone now it was a great building but as a farmer north of Wichita it’s all gone to shit. Wichita has nothing to offer for ag.
It annoys me that the people that made this documentary made that International 806 tractor sound like a JD 2 cylinder. The tractor in the beginning that was cutting hay and baling is an IH 806
Just like every time there’s a cow on camera you hear mooing
It’s an old gasser, that’s why.
“A lot more mechanized” was better than “a lot more automated” like nowadays
Great show originally but the sound system went out several times. Not good!
Good film
Not only does RDO have the most JD dealerships they are also into potato farming.. Close to 30000 acres in 6 different states…Read an article a few years back about RDO and he said Minnesota was the worst state to do agriculture in as far as the DNR is concerned
Now theres endless farm auction videos of that equipment
4:22 RD offutt (RDO) is now one of the biggest John Deere dealers in the country.
I think the dealer shown here is in Casselton ND. They have since moved to a location south of town near I-29
I still use the 46 IH baler my dad bought new in 1966. I have 2 Olsen hay forks that were made in Albert Lea minnesota.
Be glad it was a 46. I grew up on a 45. Heard my dad use more 4 letter words than one ever thought possible! I rode on the left side twine box and hand tied about 50% of the bales that came through when I was about 10 to 14 years old. I began using 4 letter words when I took over baling at 14. Needless to say....I stepped up to New Holland...language was transformed
That was not an automatic transmission
The audio in the end is just not there?
4 years into the 70 farm bill and 10 years from losing every self sustainable small farm in America to Corporate Farming from farmers reliant solely on their government for either profits or more than likely subsidies, or what most call wellfare. But what do I know, lived in Nebraska for 50 years, came from multiple generations of farmers on both parents bloodlines. Thanks Nixon. Same guy that started the War on drugs.
8:30 is incorrect. Those are the stockyards that used to be in south Omaha
Boy, that 806 needs a tuneup! 😂
I remember first hearing about KORN, then i became a metal-head & bought some KORN
Lord.......seems I was that teenager in the beginning of the video doing all the hot labor just yesterday. Seems as though I fast forwarded to 65 overnight.........lol
Hey look!!! It’s Skippy Ripshitz!!
I wish I was alive back then
Is that letter series Farmall a model MD? It sounded like a diesel to me, but I could be wrong.
look at americans working thats a sight u will never see again
The only tractors shown in this video....we're JD and IH....There were many more brands then not represented.....sad
Wrong, they show a Massey too
@@GMT400Chevy yes and a mf
They also had versatile in there
@@deannelson9565 but where are the Olivers,Minneapolis molines, Allis chalmers etc
Crab steer Case right before the stockyard segment
They forgot Illinois
75 percent of Illinois is farmland
I thought some of you might enjoy this 10:31 1960 farming video
Why is the sound off a John deer most of the video and they all farmall 😂😂😂😂😂
More like a 1964
Ha Ha Ha luxury indeed
I imagine Earl Butz watched this and was pleased with the machines but pounded his fist on his desk while yelling at that fallow field. Go big or go home, then go broke while trying to survive while doing what Republicans tell you to do, just for them to take your land.
There ain’t no greater land grabbers than the libtard marxist-socialists of the Demoncrat, pardon me, the Democrat Party !
Anywhoo, the “two parties” are in fact the “uni-party” of bought and payed for political turds which belong to the globalist elites (the international bankster families and their affiliates)
Earl really shoved it in farmers’ butz. Hopefully he’s rotting in hell.
I miss hand bailing good times
Wonder why we never got beat up in school, cause we used to bale several loads of hay every day in the summer, and the jobs not done until it's in the barn, 12-14 loads a day, all by hand three of us making $2 per hour
The propaganda machine at work back in the 70s
You’re out of your mind.
absolutely, look where we are at now. Chemicals and heavy metals in everything, cancer in so many people , its the NWO at work!
The world would starve with out the use of them
@@germantrader10 no. Farming isn’t to blame for any of that.
@germantrader10
The US government was lighting off nukes in the desert starting in 16th July 1945, elements from this stuff was pumped into the atmosphere, elements that are extremely detrimental to living tissue, such as: Cobalt-60, Barium-133, Europium-152 and 154, Americium-241, Cesium-137, Potassium-40, as well as Thorium-232 and Uranium 238.
This crap is in everything, and might help explain the sharp rise in cancer rates since the 1940's.