Campbell Farms Corp

[Cash4Toys]

Hope this link works. Not sure if it's
ever been posted here or not, but these
old photos and film is pretty impressive.
They were huge in the early 1900's around
Harding, MT. Lots of film and photos from
that Era. I read at one time they had 20
30-60 Altman Talor on plows. So many that
the factory sent full time serviceman to
stay there.

https://youtu.be/dk9KwDN_V9M

 

[d9gdon]

Now that is large scale farming, especially for being 1904.

 

[MSD]

Pretty neat footage. Took a lot of manpower to run an operation like that.

 

[Gordy in MN]

Bill Gates just bought out Campbell farm in North Dakota. 2100 acres, they farm in Florida also. Gordy in Mn

 

[Cash4Toys]

Started out with 32,000 acres and it grew to 95,000. There is a lot of footage of Best, Aultman Taylor, IH out there. It's pretty interesting reading about it. It's not all pretty though. Government helped negotiate land owned by the natives, then in the 80's-2000 they paid a lot of reparations for abusing the the land. Still in business though.

 

[rrlund]

Gonna leave it to me to post the clickable link then huh?

I wish I had some pictures of my great uncle's operation in California. We were going through some old pictures at a reunion a few years back and there was a picture of the inside of a parlor in a fancy house. My cousin said that was inside of Nels's house. Dad had told be they didn't know where he went when he left here in the early 20s. Ken said ''They knew where he went''. He'd gone to California and farmed 2000 acres one of the valleys out there. That's a lot of acres for that time. He was planning to go to Argentina and farm down there, but he died of diabetes before he could go and is buried in Washington.
Untitled URL Link

 

[Absent Minded Farmer]

Or....

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vD

Mike

 

[jddrawbar]

I think those are W-30 McCormick Deering tractors.....we had 2 of them. Finally moved up to WD9's & finally JD R's, all on steel.

 

[Cash4Toys]

I always thought they were 22-36's. Air cleaner is what I was looking at. 22-36 had pretty good power.

 

[55 50 Ron]

I think they are either 15-30 or 22-36 with the side exhaust. Dad owned and I drove a W-30 which had a vertical exhaust out through the top of the hood with a muffler. Not sure, but I think all W-30s had vertical exhaust.

 

[fastfarmall]

I know a little bit about the Campbell Bro farm, But i thought a Corp couldn't buy land in North Dakota ????

 

[fastfarmall]

I got a friend who's got a small farm near Shakopee Minn, there is a Casino south of there a bit,The Indian are paying $300.000 dollars, yes that's three hundred thousand, per acre he says if it touches their land and then let's it grew up to weeds, hes told me that two differant times,so there must be something to it!