Family Farm Research Paper

Family farms have been around for many centuries in America. My family’s farm has been in our family since the 1940’s and was started by my late great-grandfather, Howard Daugherty. He was the backbone to our now 4th generation family farm. Throughout the years, from when he started the farm up until I was born there have been many struggles. Although there have been many hardships, our family farm has been in our family throughout the years. With the high demand for bigger, better and more technologically advanced equipment, communication has become increasingly easier on the farm.
In the 1940’s when my great-grandfather started our farm, the price for crops in Oklahoma was very low. This made it very hard to make a living but for some reason …show more content…
This was the best decision by far made that would allow them to communicate between each other better than they used to. The radios we use today versus the ones my grandpa and great-uncle used first starting out looked very different. Today’s radios are more compact and smaller, and able to do more that the older ones. The older ones you would have to charge the radio before using it for the day while doing this the radio might die throughout the day. My family was not big on communicating unless they really needed something from another. In return this technology made it to where they could talk to one another even when they didn’t need to. Around this time, I was born and lived on the …show more content…
Even though we had the majority of our farm left we still were selling a part of us that had been in our family. When we did have this farm back in the 70’s my great-grandfather wouldn’t have any way of getting in contact with anyone due to being out in the middle of nowhere. This changed when we got the radios making it ten times easier to talk to one another and see where that person might be. The years to come would in turn be some of the best years but also some of the worst.
In 2008 my grandma who was still the owner of our family farm had a heart attack. If she would have passed away the farm would still have been in her name. This is why right after she got well my father started to buy my grandma out. This was good cause he would know that he was getting the farm. The other reason was that if she forgot to, or didn’t will the farm to my father that this would ensure that it wouldn’t happen. Ever since my grandpa passed away it has been me, my dad, and my older brother working on the farm and keeping it