well, i asked my dad this question. And this is his reply. This was his 80th harvest My dad has never technically owned his own land. He grew up on the family farm as the first member of the 3rd generation living in the same 2 story house with full basement and as such, dad farmed, and farmed, and farmed, and farmed, and is still farming. my dad said by age 5, he was out in the fields hoeing raspberries and other cane berries and potatoes along with his mom. He was watering animals, he was shocking hay with parents and uncles. he was working behind the stationary 3 wire baler near the weigh platform. Dads job was to place a cedar chip under one of the bale wires for the weight to be written on, so the weight of bales was kept track. and many other jobs such as a 5 year old can do on a small grain, fruit, nut, and dairy operation. by age 9, dad was driving tractor alone and unsupervised doing all many of custom farming for his father, plowing, harrowing, disking, rolling, planting, cutting, raking, dump rake, etc. When dad was a freshmen in highschool, his father bought brand new all crop 60 combine and my dad began sowing sacks.
just passing along some of my dads stories.
Did my dad purchase a farm and operate it for 80 years? of course not
Did my dad finish his 80th harvest this october? i think so
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