MidMoAg

I have one also.

Notilled not noticed.

I agree with your dislike of CRP. Back when I farmed full time in the eighties and nineties we had to compete with USDA for farm ground. It saved soil but reduced the money in the local economy since fertilizer, seed, chemicals, fuel, machinery, parts weren't needed for CRP. I actually had a USDA guy want me to talk to a land owner into enrolling. I didn't but I don't think he saw the irony in that.

I think Haisley Crawford won the 100 meters in the Olympics maybe 1976. He was 230 lbs. or so.

I lived thru that embargo, but the early eighties during Reagan's term were much harder for farmers. Record high interest rates, two droughts, record number of bankruptcies and farm forclosues. An adminstration that didn't seem too concerned although the CRP program was in fact a bailout that put a floor under tumbling land prices. Herbert Hoover would be the worst president ever. The Great depression...hunger,food lines, desperation and near revolt according to friends that lived then.

We raised and butchered hogs in the winter. My dad always ate pigs feet, liver, neck bones. We rendered lard and made cracklings out of skins. We never cooked chitlins though.