I grew up on Olivers.  They were reliable workhorses, easy to repair when they did break down.  I remember my dad and granddad working all night during planting season to tear down, send in the valves to be reground during planting season and rebuild our Oliver 70.  How satisfying it was to hear it on its test startup!  When Oliver got sold to White Motor by stockholders &quot;who wanted to line their pockets&quot; little did anyone guess that this was the the beginning of the end of the manufacture of Olivers.  Yet my dad and granddad after 1960  noticed that you couldn't get reliable service on their equipment and started buying other brands such as Farmall.  After '76 White stopped producing Oliver tractors.  White continued to mismanage their company and was bought out in '81.  Soon after 1990 Agco, a giant, bought what was left of Oliver, Farmall, Massey Ferguson, and other brands.  These brands were pioneers in farming equipment.  To see their demise and the demise is of the family farm is still shocking.  Except for a fortunate few and weekend farmers who would like to go back to being fulltime, farming is big business and huge equipment only operators.  You have to own a bank to be a fulltime farmer, it seems.  Does anyone else share my sentiments?  I know it's probably unrealistic to even think about going back in farming to the way things were....What can be done to restore families to farms?  Are there &quot;niches&quot; of kinds of work, farm products, still out there?