Posted by Brendon-KS on February 25, 2019 at 04:34:01 from (63.245.145.17):
In Reply to: Irrigated farming. posted by DeltaRed on February 24, 2019 at 22:49:04:
The area you live and farm in isn't too different from where I grew up on the other side of the state in the La Junta area. During high school I worked for my friend's dad on their grain and produce farm and know first-hand the physical labor involved with flood irrigation. Many mornings were spent moving and setting syphon tubes, messing with ditch dams, shoveling out the furrows across the headlands, and other tasks that would be unknown in other areas. Since produce was (and still is) a big part of their operation the season was quite long. We'd start planting in the greenhouse in February and harvest would end in September with the first frost. In between was transplanting by hand, hoeing by hand, and picking by hand. (It was here thay I learned how willing migrant workers are for actually working for their living. The work ethic they demonstrate would put most of us to shame.) As far as physical effort is involved it makes the grain farming here in central Kansas seem like a walk in the park. My FIL has spent his entire life on the same farm and really doesn't know much about how farming is done in other areas. Shortly after we were married we took my in-laws to my home near La Junta so they could see where I came from. It was a real eye-opener for them to see all the manual labor that goes into flood-irrigation farming, especially with vegetables. Here the long, busy days are clustered into a week here, a weeek there kind of thing with long periods of limited action in between but with flood irrigation the work is continuous. As you say, this would make it tough for a person with a full-time job to do much farming on the side. I could name quite a few people in our area that farm sizable acreage in addition to a full-time town job but this would be hard to do if you had to set syphon tubes every day during the summer.
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