Thompson Family Ag

05/12/2026

Finally rolling. Slow start for planting in our area. Happy to have a little stretch of dry weather!

04/14/2026

Getting dirty!

03/13/2026

Little too windy for spraying, but a great time to upgrade.

11/15/2025

Should’ve hunted the barn yard this morning! Good luck to all the hunters in Orange today.

10/31/2025

With harvest wrapped up we were able to pull together our BioPath data from this years trial. Check out the video below for our results! Crop Nutrition

10/29/2025

Tight knit community’s during the depression took matters into their own hands. Never read about this in the school history book.

Penny auction at foreclosed Michigan farm (1936). At penny auctions farmers would conspire to offer low bids, resulting in a low return to the creditor. The final buyer would then return the property to the destitute farmer. Hangman nooses served as a warning to squirrelly bidders.

This haunting photograph from 1936 captures a penny auction at a foreclosed farm in Michigan, one of the most defiant and ingenious acts of resistance to emerge during the Great Depression. When banks repossessed farms after families could no longer meet their mortgage payments, local communities often took matters into their own hands.

Farmers would gather in large groups and agree beforehand to bid only pennies on each item — from livestock to land — driving the auction prices down to virtually nothing. The final “buyer,” usually a trusted neighbor, would then return the property to the original owner, ensuring the family could remain on their land.

The nooses seen hanging in the background weren’t decorative; they served as chilling warnings to outsiders who might attempt to outbid the crowd. These were not empty threats — solidarity and survival left little room for betrayal.

The penny auctions became powerful symbols of rural unity and defiance. They weren’t just about saving one farm, but about preserving a way of life, one desperate bid at a time.

Added Fact: By 1933, more than 200,000 farms were foreclosed across the Midwest, sparking organized movements like the Farmer’s Holiday Association, which fought to halt foreclosures entirely.

10/14/2025

Last day of harvest 🌽

10/12/2025

Happy National Farmers Day!

10/01/2025

Update: The corn is plenty dry 🤯 🌽

09/30/2025

Soybeans are finished ✅
On to corn🌽if it’s dry enough. Stay tuned 🤞

09/16/2025

Best time of year 😁