Hereford Guy - 12/16/2017 00:09
BigcCharlie740 - 12/15/2017 07:27
guys..... what used to be in Sioux City ?
thats part of the reason why there's so much or was so much livestock at the time ....
Huge stockyards, with packing plants that had alleyways under the streets to drive livestock. you had Sioux Falls to the West, Omaha to the South, and the twin cities to the North.
not to mention that a lot of the families up there or in Western Iowa had several kids. I had classmates that were part of 13 or 15 litter families. meaning mom and dad stayed warm every winter.... lots of them or us dairied until it wasn't feasible or kids moved off farm. always fed cattle, and hogs, sheep. grain marketing plan? it all walked off the farm.
raising a family was cheap back then.
. for those who don't have load lots of fat cattle and hogs, use the auction barns for sales?
Northeast Nebraska too. Big German Catholic area. Lots of families with 8-10+ kids. Omaha, Sioux City, Sioux Falls, Minneapolis/Saint Paul Regional. Plenty of options for a livestock market. Buddy up there once told me his dad, uncles and grandpa kept everything fenced in with woven wire and after picking corn, or sometimes not even bothering to pick it, they would turn calves, hogs, lambs, whatever out onto the stalks or just let them eat down the standing crop. They milked, fed cattle, farrow to finished, cow-calf herds, fed lambs.
Nw Iowa livestock?
