LOCATION: Highway 20/26, between Ontario and Vale, Malheur County, OR
DESCRIPTION: A modern version of Lange's "tractored out" photograph of
1938, this farm was likely consolidated into a larger one. Here, down in the
Malheur River valley, farms seem larger and more prosperous than up on Dead
Ox Flat, where smaller farms of 40-80 acres are the norm. "It's hard to make
a living on a farm smaller than 300 acres," one farmer told me. "Those with
1,000 acres or more, they're doing better."