| cousinit - 6/19/2012 16:25 tink, what was yield like in '76?
In the Sixties, nearly every farm had five crops in rotation - corn, beans, wheat, oats and hay - plus cattle and hogs.
Even as early as the late Sixties, it was changing. Small livestock producers were moving exclusively to rowcrop.
People who had grown up on a farm took off-farm jobs, and the advantage of less livestock and more rowcrop was obvious.
So, fertile ground was almost too easy.
By the mid-Seventies, I expected and most often got ~150bpa.
By the late Seventies ~175.
In 1981/1982 and sandwiched in between the drought years of 80/83, I enjoyed a two year average of 190+.
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