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DATE: May 17, 2005
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."