Americana 1980s: farms archive footage

Archival footage shot by Otto Wolf, a Swiss filmmaker, while visiting USA in 1980.
It contains stock footage of farms: tractors, fields, harvesters, silos, farmers working, crop duster planes, and more.
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[@ianhotson6057]

Farming with my dad in '70s and '80s best time of my life, I'm sitting here just missing those times right now!! Life was good, what a great video, and I thank you!

[@Footageforprocom]

Glad you enjoyed it

[@toledojeeper2932]

I know how you feel . I grew up on a 1500 acre farm back in the 70’s . Worked it with my dad and brothers . Dad was killed in a tractor roll over in 2000 , 1 brother died in 2011 , and the other brother got cancer . Now the farms are all rented out and the equipment has all been sold . Man I miss those days .

[@user-sw4dm1qj2x]

Back when u could farm no gps no beeping crap all in the cab with u just the ground and row markers good old days

[@TheBluesmanBlue]

Turning dirt to feed the world the American🇺🇸 Farmers all work and no play thanks for posting👏👏👏👏

[@ericthiel4053]

Worked on my uncle's dairy farm in the late 80s. Seems like this really was a great decade for farmers at least on family operations who weren't involved with the banks in those s year's. Money was decent most the time and the equipment was iconic in those years. Every time I go back to MI all the family operations are now closed or owned by some company.

[@l337pwnage]

well, like a guy once said, "give me control of a nation's currency, and I care not who makes its laws."

[@ArmpitStudios]

What a gorgeous film and video. So relaxing.

[@Footageforprocom]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@kasen3205]

Definitely in the south somewhere, can tell by the wide spaced rows and R2’s. Amco was also an up and coming brand in southern states back in the 80’s

[@repairmanjoe8081]

This is still us. Same machinery as we had purchased a lot of it new in the late70s and early 80s. Not much money since then to upgrade so we just repair and keep going.

[@crookdogg1989]

Those were the good days! 👍

[@Jordannelson23]

We need to go back..im making a time machine to go back to the 80s anyone coming with me

[@scottrayhons2537]

Can I go? I started farming 6 acres in 1973. Love the simple times in the 80's. Just worked hard and long hours!

[@Richard-Allen]

Those were the days I wish I could visit, even though we still farm today with a lot of machinery that existed in 1980 it just doesn't feel the same, I was born in 2009 but I've always found the late 70's and early 80's interesting, especially in rural America, we had a 78 F-250 just like the one in the video up until not to long ago, and the black buick reminded me a lot of the brown 1974 ford ltd my grandma had that she used to go to town.

[@TRUMP2024-m1y]

I was born 2002

[@danepittman1383]

The crazy part is seeing a new bin set up that small.

[@stoparret]

Song: "Waiting and Pacing the Dim Lit Room" by Max Corcoran Project

[@johnnyholland8765]

Yep that was the eighties. Cultivating tillage etc... I suffered through them till I went bankrupt. Lot of good times and even more bad times. That was a lifetime ago...

[@ronsmith1364]

Prosperous farm for that time. Cringe seeing him walk through that dusting session & breathing & absorbing all that chemical through his skin. Like riding your bike through the mosquito spraying truck when it came to the neighborhood in summer of '73 in Cheraw, SC. "Just what you did as a kid"...

[@davidwhisnant3230]

Those were good times older machiney and cotton always enjoyed plowing cotton

[@davidbrennan3613]

Class video, the articulated international is a mighty job

[@zoepradillada6873]

Nice❤️

[@majkizbajki8032]

Nice 👍

[@lori8880]

They never show how Jimmy Carter affected farming.

[@robertmeszaros5439]

He destroyed all small American farmers.

[@davehughesfarm7983]

Good stuff..

[@Footageforprocom]

Glad you enjoyed it

[@clevefd]

Film is great! Also love the music selection. Does anyone know the name?

[@MrBillygoat]

I worked on a La rice farm in the late 70’s, $15 a day

[@tomnapier681]

each year everything costs more to do the same thing done last year to make less and less money it would be interesting to know who is setting the world prices of the commodities as the inputs never seem to cost less

[@TheMallen07]

I’m assuming due to the cotton crop, this was filmed somewhere in the south. The landscape reminds me of the low country of SC. Flat sandy soil with tons of pine trees.

[@benhall2146]

Where was this filmed?

[@agricola]

My guess is this was somewhere in arkansas

[@pratapbhai6121]

Gta sanandreas 😊

[@germantrader10]

“Unknowingly “ poisoning Americans since 1947 thanks NWO