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Lee E. Brown – Information about his Farming and Work:
1. Lee worked for Kroger Grocery Company for 43 years – 8 hours a day, 5 days a week – 40 hr week.
2. He owned and farmed 450 acres: crops were Corn, Wheat, Soy Beans. He also had a large acreage of Tomatoes which are a high dollar, high maintenance crop – more work than tobacco, with a lot of manual labor.
3. Livestock: he owned 200 head of cattle: 100 registered black angus, and 100 herefords; 200 hogs; and chickens.
4. He customed harvested an additional 500 acres of land; he owned one of the first self propelled combines in the region.
Cary Brown (son of Lee): Information about his farming and work (at about age 55) (2003)
1. Cary owns and manages his own business: 19 refrigerated semi – trucks bringing fresh produce from west coast back to Ohio. Gross revenue is about 2 million dollars a year.
2. Cary owns and actively farms 825 acres: Crops are: Corn, Wheat, soy beans, hay and straw. Just yesterday (Saturday, August 2, 2003 ) they cut and baled 4000 bales of hay in one day.
3. He share leases an additional 1000 acres and does all the farming of that himself. All farming gross is about a $90,000 a year operation.
4. He ( with wife’s decorating expertise ) completely rehabed their historical 1845 farmhouse; built an addition on to the house 2001-02. He had foundation, framing, roof, heating, plumbing and some electricity all done professionally. The rest of the interior work on the addition, he did himself.
5. “In season”, Cary works 19 hours a day, and he loves every minute of it.
Source for above is Cary Brown, Aug 3, 2003.