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NW Iowa | When my future wife was going to UNI in Cedar Falls a little over 50 years ago I would drive the 150 miles from northwest Iowa to Cedar Falls every weekend to see her. I was always envious of the central Iowa farmers who had Deere 4620’s or 5020’s or IH 1256’s or 1456’s parked in their yards usually in full view of the highway. Today most of the once nice buildings on those farms are run down or gone, the cattle lots are empty, the roofs are blown off the silos and that row of four stately Harvestores sits alone in a field planted to crops. A couple of those once stately farms now have stayed active and have new Morton buildings and a new house but that is the exception. It’s just a sign of the times. And yes looks can be deceiving. Some of the modest looking farms with a 560 sitting on the yard hooked to a four bottom plow 50 years ago are still nice looking modest farms today but a boxcar magnum is sitting where the 560 used to be parked. | |
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Drove up I35 today
