Re: why did you start in farming

Posted by Crazy Red Power in SE-WI on September 24, 2012 at 20:27:02 from (68.114.237.14):

In Reply to: why did you start in farming posted by dino in iowa on September 24, 2012 at 18:37:35:

Ok, this is the short, short, short, SHORT, version. I've always wanted to farm since I was old enough to follow the tractor tracks. The cheveron pattern in the ground interested me for whatever reason & once I figured out where it came from, I was hooked. My Grandparents on my Ma's side still farmed 'till I was about 5 or 6. There was many a ride, for me, on the machines that made those neat tracks. The interest eventually switched over to the equipment & the rest of the farm. It was then that I learned how to use hand tools, cut the lawn on a riding mower & drive a tractor(8N) for the first time. This all came to fruition after they retired from farming, so I always had hopes of continuing where they left off. I paid plenty of attention to agriculture as I grew up & did what I could to learn what I could on the few small farms around here through work. Somewhere around high school, interest if farming began to subside. My Grandparents passed when I was 16 so the positive reinforcement no longer existed to ease me into farming. Also, stupid kid things like partying began to sound like fun.

Once out of high school, I went with a factory job vs farm work. One dosen't get a lot of time to drink & socalize while farming & it was pretty easy to do a bunch of brain-dead BS all week & get a paycheck to liquify. I went that route for about 10 years. One day, I went out behind the pines & noticed my thresher was rotting away at an alarming speed. Could have sworn I had just parked it there a few months ago, when I realised that it had been "temporarilly" parked outside for about 8 years. By this time, the outbuildings on my Grandparents (now Aunt & Uncle) farm were in serious disrepair. So was my life.

That discovery is what led me to quit drinking. Breaking my back & not being able to drink at all on my med's cemented sobriety in place. After a couple years of healing, I came to the conclusion that the only thing that was keeping me down & my back from not healing was my being static. Once I realised labor in moderation is helping my back, I became a lot more physically active. My big break to operate a little corner of the farm came when our septic mound had to be put in the field adjacent to the house. The rest is current history.

Mike

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