When you have grown up on a farm in the 1960s and ‘70s it is almost beyond belief the changes in farming we see today.
It was a mixed farm for me, and that meant pigs and grain.
In my youth I hauled a lot of ground grain to feed the pigs using cleaned five-gallon pails that originally were filled with some weed spray, or another.
Looking back over some 40-years it seems like it was such a crazy thing, but repurposing the pails was pretty standard. I’m pretty sure potatoes came from the garden to the cellar bin in similar pails.