Corn Cribs
These corn cribs are for storing corn until needed for shelling and grinding into feed for cattle. Fences and gates are for running cattle in a field for foraging. This is rapidly becoming a disappearing phenomenon on the farms on the prairie. Many farmers now joke that they belong to the C.B.F. club. Corn, Beans, and Florida. Having no cattle or other livestock to tend to, committed only to row crops, there is no need to be on the farm all winter. Corn cribs and barns for storing hay are no longer needed. Forget about silos for ensilage. It does indeed simplify things but many farmers I talk to speak nostalgically about the old days when there was year round work to be done on the farm with animals to tend to and all of their associated needs. Something about farming without animals just doesn’t feel right. Children’s books like Old McDonald Had A Farm would today only show a combine, machine shed, and grain hauling semi rig. Yikes! What happened?
Corn Cribs
These corn cribs are for storing corn until needed for shelling and grinding into feed for cattle. Fences and gates are for running cattle in a field for foraging. This is rapidly becoming a disappearing phenomenon on the farms on the prairie. Many farmers now joke that they belong to the C.B.F. club. Corn, Beans, and Florida. Having no cattle or other livestock to tend to, committed only to row crops, there is no need to be on the farm all winter. Corn cribs and barns for storing hay are no longer needed. Forget about silos for ensilage. It does indeed simplify things but many farmers I talk to speak nostalgically about the old days when there was year round work to be done on the farm with animals to tend to and all of their associated needs. Something about farming without animals just doesn’t feel right. Children’s books like Old McDonald Had A Farm would today only show a combine, machine shed, and grain hauling semi rig. Yikes! What happened?