Posted by Buzzman72 on June 28, 2009 at 17:45:53 from (74.129.192.160):
In Reply to: Why do i farm? posted by ProudCubOwner on June 27, 2009 at 23:58:46:
I don't farm,and never have. I grew up as a "garage rat" at Pappy and Grand-dad's tractor shop. By the time I got old enough to get involved at the shop, all the tools and equipment were old, and Pap and Grand-dad refused to make the switch to "them stinkin' diesels," as Pap called 'em. Consequently, there wasn't enough business to support everyone.
So I went to work away from the shop, and helped out on the weekends. In the early 1980's I went to work for the WRGrace fertilizer plant...just as the farm economy went in the dumper. Even after the Farm Bureau fertilizer plant in Indy burned and we got the FB contract, our volume kept dropping. After 1983 I never went back, and there's a WAL*MART where the fertilizer plant and the tobacco warehouse next door used to stand.
A couple of the jobs I had over the years were mistakes...they were the ones I took while chasing the Almighty Dollar, rather than doing what I love. And now that I'm almost 55, I realize the time I spent there is time I'll never get back.
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