[pentaxshooter89]

Here's a few. Although you can't see the whole barn

Great images!

[rod_grant]

Has seen better days

[ramseybuckeye]

[UncleVanya]

Really nice peaceful scene...

[KC0PET]

The current status of our old barn. It won't be long

[Fenwoodian]

The current status of our old barn. It won't be long

Hundreds of farmers call it quits each year here in Wisconsin. Plenty of decaying old barns up here in Northern Wisconsin. I feel sorry for the hard working farmers.

This year they have not been able to get their corn or beans off the fields, now theirs too much snow. Huge losses.

[goatsNdonkey]

In Illinois, while small farms do fail, many gradually get bought up by people making ever more-sprawling row-crop farms. The farms with those old barns were usually diversified, but now you can drive for miles and not see any sort of livestock, especially in some parts of the state. Sometimes the row-crop farmers let the old barns stand, especially if they can park equipment in them. Sometimes they bulldoze them for a few more crop rows.

[KC0PET]

In Illinois, while small farms do fail, many gradually get bought up by people making ever more-sprawling row-crop farms. The farms with those old barns were usually diversified, but now you can drive for miles and not see any sort of livestock, especially in some parts of the state. Sometimes the row-crop farmers let the old barns stand, especially if they can park equipment in them. Sometimes they bulldoze them for a few more crop rows.

I have seen an awful lot of them bulldozed along with nice little patches of woods, entire farmsteads, etc. to make way for large equipment. I am not necessarily opposed to large farming operations, but it is sad to see those things that made up the character of rural America and the small farms of days gone by disappear.

[noelpolar]

A aussie outback sheep station.... late 1800's

Voitglander Color Skopar 20/3.5



SMC K 50/1.2


Local Cypress pine resists the white ants out this way.

[ashurbanipal]

I have seen an awful lot of them bulldozed along with nice little patches of woods, entire farmsteads, etc. to make way for large equipment. I am not necessarily opposed to large farming operations, but it is sad to see those things that made up the character of rural America and the small farms of days gone by disappear.

Same here. It always cheers me up a little to drive past an old farmstead and see the buildings still there. In some areas it's hard to tell anymore where the field ends and the road begins...

[ramseybuckeye]

I think old barns are disappearing everywhere. This photo shows some newer barns, part of a massive dairy operation.

[ashurbanipal]

Should probably crop this to get rid of the power line, but I like the vertical orientation.

[goatsNdonkey]

Should probably crop this to get rid of the power line, but I like the vertical orientation.

That's a perfect example of the old dual-well wooden corn crib buildings. No need for a powered corn drier fan with all of that ventilation.

I recognize the power line as just part of the rural landscape now, but many people don't realize how much of rural America didn't get electrified until AFTER WWII. The war interrupted the rural electrification program started in the 1930s.

[goatsNdonkey]

Another sunset barn:



Super-Takumar f/3.5 35mm, shot wide open on a Sony NEX-5 with an m42 to Sony E-mount adapter.

(cross-posted)

[Driftwood]

Here's one you can drive through! Schoharie County, NY.