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| Most of the feed crops were walked off the farm in the form of hogs or cattle. Corn was hardly considered a cash crop in a lot of places. Here (CO) cash crops were sugar beets and pinto beans. A little further west malting barley was also a good crop along with some onions and potatoes. When market access to hogs and eventually fed cattle disappeared small towns already shrinking dried up. In many ways the sixties and into the seventies were way better than later years. | |
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The difference of 60 years.
