So God Made a Farmer

[GregLaROCHE]

Maybe members have already seen this, but having retired from farming I can relate.

https://youtube.com/shorts/ceB1K_Q2sU0?feature=share

[elmacgyver0]

I was a farmer's son, so I can relate to this.
Been there, done that.

[DocSavage]

Sounds like Paul Harvey.

[Dave W.]

Yup, Paul Harvey, as a kid, I remember hearing him say this on the radio.

[rockrat]

Ggrandfather had farms but sold them when I was little. Grandad had about 95 acres under cultivation. Usually wheat or alfalfa. Think I have about 1200 hours on a tractor. Sill keep about an acre under cultivation. I use the Massey Ferguson tractor I inherited from Grandad. Its 50 years old now and still in good shape.

[gc45]

Ggrandfather had farms but sold them when I was little. Grandad had about 95 acres under cultivation. Usually wheat or alfalfa. Think I have about 1200 hours on a tractor. Sill keep about an acre under cultivation. I use the Massey Ferguson tractor I inherited from Grandad. Its 50 years old now and still in good shape.

Good for you!

[pworley1]

I grew up farming. We worked the same farm for 4 generations, but we rent the land now. That is a great clip, it was used in a Chevrolet truck commercial a few years ago. The last surviving WWII veteran in our church passed away last summer and he wanted it played at his funeral, and it was.

[Silvercreek Farmer]

Barring accidents, a farm is a great place to raise kids. Plenty of work and responsibility with real world consequences, as well as plenty of room to roam. I couldn’t imagine raising my kids in an apartment.

[Big Goose]

The wealthy and great
Live in splendor and state-
Yet I envy them not, I declare it!
For I eat my own ham,
Beef, chicken, and lamb..
I shear my own sheep, and I wear it!
I have barns and I have bowers,
I have fields and I have flowers;
The cock crowing is my morning alarmer!
So, Jolly boys now, and God speed the plow,
To success and long life for the Farmer!!

[farmbif]

yeah, I miss Paul Harvey. can relate to the work. my two favorite things are the smell of a freshly plowed field and the enthusiasm of customers buying my produce at the farmers markets. but I've transitioned to tree and nut farming, no more plowing fields just cutting grass and when the trees are ready and start getting weighted with nuts I'm planning on having pick your own chestnuts. I only have about 50 acres but there is always something more that needs to be done.

[elmacgyver0]

And now you have heard the rest of the story.

[beemer]

All my Dad ever wanted to do was farm. Where he lived at the time he couldn't get enough land to make it sustainable. He got out about 1959 but was never really happy again. I remember we raised almost everything we ate. Mom loved it too, she pasteurized our milk, made butter, cured hams and canned everything she could get her hands on. She made yeast rolls that we liked better than cake.

[sigep1764]

I miss Paul Harvey

[fatelk]

Nice video. I've heard it before too. I've been there, done that too, from thousands of hours on tractors and old farm trucks, fixing fences, milking cows, baling hay, shoveling cow manure, bucking hay bales, pulling calves, doctoring sick cows, vaccinating, dehorning, branding, etc, etc... You farmers know what I'm talking about.

This is probably a little "off topic", and I apologize in advance to the farmers here for the following; no offense intended.

My dad was a farmer. He passed a couple years ago. Farming was his passion; he was intelligent and educated but farming was all he ever wanted to do. It was also his obsession. When I was young he was too busy and stressed with making ends meet farming to spend any time with his son, and we never had a good relationship. I finally left home and the farm at 25. I tried my whole life to earn his respect, but since I wasn't a farmer I always knew I was his biggest disappointment in life.

Even in his later years anytime they visited our state (they still had some property here), they never had much time to visit or get to know their grandkids; he always had work to do, and then rush back to his GD farm. When we would visit them in the midwest, he was too busy with his GD farm to spend much time getting to know his grandkids. My kids never knew their grandfather, though I tried and tried. I have no doubt that he loved us all, but we weren't farmers.

I would love to live out of town, and give my kids room to roam, ride horses and motorcycles like I did, but we've done what we had to do to make ends meet, and they're growing up in town. We LOVED to go out to the family property here, a family connection that my older kids especially enjoyed. After my dad passed, my mom immediately sold it and put the money into the farm there. Later we heard that they set up a trust and everything goes to my one sister who never left the farm (now worth millions).

The farm is for farmers, and that's all there is to it. There's no bad blood. I loved my folks, still talk to my mom all the time. They don't owe me a dime, never have. It's just hurtful to finally fully realize that when I left the farm, I was no longer really family. It has taken me decades to understand that. It's hard not to be bitter, and any fond memories I have of farming have become mostly hurtful.

My dad, and now my sister, bought in to this generational idea that farming is the most noble thing that a man can do, and all else is inferior. A man's value is in his hard work, and that farmland is sacred and all-important. It has taken me most of my life to see through all that. It was a deeply ingrained notion going back nearly 150 years to when my great-grandfather immigrated to this country with the clothes on his back and a few coins in his pocket, and worked hard to get some land of his own.

Anyhow, my respect to the farmers here. Please remember to keep some perspective. Farming can be a great life, but family comes first. Please don't reject family if they don't stay on the farm.

[farmerjim]

I took an early retirement with 25 years and 10 days from the USDA in grain inspection. I bought 32 acres of land and grew peaches and vegetables with help from my wife and a summertime helper. It was a good thing that I had a retirement check every month. I quit last year because of failed back surgery or I would still be out in the fields.

[shooterg]

Barring accidents, a farm is a great place to raise kids. Plenty of work and responsibility with real world consequences, as well as plenty of room to roam. I couldn’t imagine raising my kids in an apartment.

Most every kid useta have a cousin that lived on a farm and could spend some time visiting and learn where their groceries came from . Me, I was the cousin getting visited by all the city cousins ! Wish every kid had that opportunity .Best way to grow up ever IMHO .

[GregLaROCHE]

A poor farmer went to Las Vegas and got lucky winning a million dollars. When asked what he was going to do with the money he said “Go home and farm until is all gone”.

[Handloader109]

Fatelk, I hear you. My great great grandfather came to the US and Mississippi right before the turn of the century, in the 1890s from Germany. My great grandfather was 4. The family purchased and farmed 400 odd acres in Central MS which was a large farm in the area (not the delta) When he passed, the kids sold the farm as more wanted the money rather than farm. One was a professional farm supervisor foe numerous large farms in the delta of MS and Arkansas and never owned hardly a car his whole life. My grandfather purchased 80 odd acres and my great aunt his sister, purchased 80 more directly across from his and rented it to him to farm. Which he did his whole life. Died in his 80s with barely the shirt on his back except the farm. The house was practically falling in around him. Broke. But loved to farm. My dad played farmer as a side business on the two properties from the 70s until he passed. Never made much over the taxes every year, but he just loved it. One of the biggest fights we had was him showing up on a Saturday morning at 8am expecting me to go help with the cows. Mind you, is was 25 or so, new child and was working a ft job along with my normal duties around my house. Couldn't ever understand I wanted to do something besides spend all my free time working around the cows and other stuff. My brother had the bug worse, and he was working closer and just liked doing this. At any rate, I've got half the property now that my parents are both gone. And it's worth just what it was in 1980, $2k an acre. Roughly nothing as it is low lying farm land. Oh well. Not a rant, but just explaining that you aren't alone....

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[Shawlerbrook]

Thank you God for giving us farmers !

[Woodbridge 30-30]

Our local 4H plays the audio from that every year before the livestock auction.

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