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Bruce from Can.
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- Woodville, Ontario, Canada
Is this crops on their own farm enterprise? Or a crop planted as a kid home on the farm with dad?
On my own farm I have planted 41 crops, and I am 60 years old. So I guess I am done!!
On my own farm I have planted 41 crops, and I am 60 years old. So I guess I am done!!
redforlife
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Well, I am around the 30 year mark. So, I guess your telling me I only have 10 to go. Not sure what I'm going to do after that. Its doubtful that I will be well enough off at that point to retire. There better be an abundance of soft jobs to support our elderly in the future, I Can Tell Ya That. Wal-Mart better go into overdrive with multiple door greeters, or something! LOL.
jimg.allentown
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If a farmer plants one field with corn, another with wheat, and another with beans, does that count as 1 crop or 3?
For me it's been 47 years for crops that I put in and paid the expense of.Started in high school and still going.The saying goes that you grown up and move away.In my case I grew up and my siblings and parents moved away.We had a family gathering yesterday and my siblings joked about that.Guess my roots are still on the farm.
Shetland Sheepdog
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Bought the Angus herd from my uncles and assumed operation of the family farm in '83, at the age of 44! Still at it 38 years later, although scaled back considerably!
Centerplate
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- Location
- Green County Wi
2022 will be number year number 49. I went to a school that was about half farm kids. I am the last farmer in my high school graduating class.
A lot of changes have happened since the sixties as a kid growing up.
A lot of changes have happened since the sixties as a kid growing up.
Swede in IOWA
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2022 will mark 50years on the same piece of ground. Swede
Bob Bancroft
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- Aurora NY
42.
In my youth helped with several before that.
In my youth helped with several before that.
Planted my last one last year and started in 1968 so 52. Sold off big portion of the farm last spring and leased the rest after this harvest. Already a diffrent world not having to worry about seed and fertilize prices. Probably waited to the last to have the best with lots of rain we had bumper yields one corn this year.
coonie minnie
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Had a neighbor that had put at least part of over 70 crops in. He started at 9... with a team of horses. His father had a field worked up, he had to attend a funeral, and it looked like rain. He got his son started, and told him to keep the boxes full, and that the horses more or less know what to do. When dad came home in the rain, the field was planted.
The gentleman planted at least some of the next 70 years.
He was a neat guy, and I miss him.
The gentleman planted at least some of the next 70 years.
He was a neat guy, and I miss him.
Howard Buffets book says Forty Chances I'm going on 49 plus about 8-10 before that with Dad. It's been a struggle the whole time some more than others. Hope to get ten more, then I think that will be the end unless my grand son is interested but I bet my farm may be houses by then.
Tom OConnor
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Dad passed away when I was ten and I retired at seventy five and planted crops every year in between so the answer is sixty five. Now in my eighties my wife and I have a beautiful retirement and our daughters say that I am a spliting image of the movie On Golden Pond. The girls are most always right, they say ask Dad what time it is and he will tell you how to build a watch. We live about half way up the White Tank Mountains West of Phoenix in the Winters and on Lake Charlevoix in Northern Michigan in the Summer. I have no desire to drive a tractor or combine across another field or to wrench on anything.
rusty6
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- East central Sask.
Even worse for me. If I count the ones I helped my dad with its just over 50. Hope I have a few more left to go but at this stage we never know.
rusty6
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- East central Sask.
Hopefully they will be "golden" for you. We had an old neighbour I used see once in a while in the old folks home and he would say, "they call them the golden years but they are really the $hit years".
formerly ny bill
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We bought our own farm in 1980, when I was 30. So, 41 here.
Before that 15+/- years, mostly plowing, on Dad's farm, but he did most of the planting.
Seed is already bought for next year.
Before that 15+/- years, mostly plowing, on Dad's farm, but he did most of the planting.
Seed is already bought for next year.
Vicinalvictor
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Let's see, Brussel Sprouts, Cantaloupes, Okra, Cherry Tomatoes, Plum Tomatoes, Big Tomatoes, Sweet Corn, Indian Corn, Watermelon, Hot Peppers, Sweet Peppers, Red Potatoes, Gold Potatoes, Purple Potatoes, Fingerling Potatoes, Sweet Potatoes, Acorn Squash, Butternut Squash, Yellow Squash, Zucchini Squash. That's all I can think of, nowhere near forty.
crsutton81
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I'm going into year number 22 as an occupation. Guess I'm a little better than halfway there then. Sure feels like it.Dad has been at it for 38 years. Grandaddy was forced to quit school in the 8th grade at the age of 12 when his dad died. He took over and successfully farmed the homeplace and then some for 63 years until his health declined enough where he couldn't go anymore. This will be the unbroken 251 year that the homeplace has been farmed by a direct decendant of the original Sutton family. Starting to feel like what grandaddy meant that the Sutton men were wore out at age 77. No one has lived past age 78 yet.
casecollectorsc
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- E central SD.
Started in 68...coming up on 54 years.
fixerupper
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2022 will be my 48th and last crop farming on my own. Where has the time gone? A good friend of mine has been farming on his own for a little over 60 years. He is 84.
Grew up on a farm but family werent farmers. I worked on farm all through school, and then spent 45 yrs as a career firefighter, retired in August of 21. Reading these posts makes me realize what has made this country great. I have learned so much reading the different discussion boards on this site and am grateful to so many of you for sharing the knowledge you all have. Thank you for so much, wish I could meet some of you in person.
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thehickdaddy
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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
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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