It's always amazing, and refreshing, to me, to hear stories like that coming from other countries where agriculture, and farmers, are given the respect they deserve, instead of being treated like third class citizens, as they generally are in this country. And its amazing what those people in those countries accomplish on those small plots of land. And so what if it's right in the middle of town, folks just know that thats the way its always been, and probably always will be, if they want to eat. They still know their food doesn't just materialize in the local grocery store. What a great story!! :D
Now what have I done with 4/10 of an acre? On the place we were living on in 1983, there is a field adjacent to the yard, that measured 8.4 acres at the time. The top end of the field, right next to the yard, was very crooked. We cut that crooked end off the top end of that field, tied it into the yard, and built a new 54' X 82.5' Morton building. Made that field into a nice, square cornered, even 8 acres, and while that building has been a good investment, I know it sure hasn't generated the income that the .4 acres in the middle of that German village has. :wink:
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Today's Featured Article - An Old-Time Tractor Demonstration - by Kim Pratt. Sam was born in rural Kansas in 1926. His dad was a hard-working farmer and the children worked hard everyday to help ends meet. In the rural area he grew up in, the highlight of the week was Saturday when many people took a break from their work to go to town. It was on one such Saturday in the early 1940's when Sam was 16 years old that he ended up in Dennison, Kansas to watch a demonstration of a new tractor being put on by a local dealer. It was an Allis-Chalmers tractor dealership,
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