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Presents Roger DeWitt Artist of the Historical Midwest |
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Corn Fed Beef
The StoryThis scene, once very common in the Illinois countryside, is the becoming all too rare. It used to be that farms were smaller and much more diversified. Many farmers kept a few beef cows to produce calves that were fattened out on corn and corn silage up in the barn lot during the fall and winter. After the corn was picked we would turn the old cows out on the stalk fields to eat the fodder and clean up all the ears of corn that the combine had missed. An old college professor of mine taught me that the average Midwest farmer makes money on cattle one year in seven. It only took me 14 years to prove him right. Roger DeWitt, Artist
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