NW Illinois Stephenson county | Also just mechanization, from flogging wheat on a barn floor to threshing machine to combine, from open pollinated corn to hybrids to trait breeding, from hand weeding to better and better herbicides along with other pesticides and seed treatments, from hand picking corn to mechanized ear corn picking to combines shelling corn and driers to dry the corn, from better and better roads and bigger wagons and trucks, and from subsistence farming to subsistence plus farming to exporting large quantities of grains and products.
Also which came first, the chicken or the egg? Did physical labor or economics drive kids off the farm and farms were forced to mechanize to survive, or visa versa? Did ecnomics force farms to lower costs of production and lower cost per unit of production by spreading fixed costs over more acres and bigger volume discounts on purchaced inputs?
As famers we could lower the cost of production to 0 and purchacers would want us to pay them to "buy" our production; so ultimately we are like a dog chasing his tail 'round and 'round in circles. My apologies to dogs everywhere. |
Talk of renting ground.
