[garandgal]

My family still farms, also. There are ways to make a good living, and diversifying helps considerably. We used to raise hogs, but have since discontinued that to raise other livestock with a better return. You know...the pork doesn't taste as good anymore, either...seriously! Nothing like that good, corn-fattened, pork...LOL!

[liberalnot]

that reminds me, we didn't specialize in dairying when i was a kid. we sold eggs, fresh chicken meat, milk, cream, garden veggies, pigs, beef, etc.

boy, did we eat all the things that today are a no-no! but we worked hard, very hard. we didn't have the mechanization in the 1950s that we have today. hay stacking, for example, was by hand, while today, a machine picks the bales up, and brings them in, in a group of 120, or so.