Wednesday, May 2, 2012

Take you for a ride on my BIG GREEN TRACTOR :)

Farming what is it? The direct definition is the cultivation of animals, plants, fungi, and other life forms for food, fiber, and other products used to sustain life.[1] Agriculture was the key development in the rise of sedentary human civilization, whereby farming of domesticated species created food surpluses that nurtured the development of civilization. The study of agriculture is known as agricultural science. Agriculture generally speaking refers to human activities, although it is also observed in certain species of ant and termite



Now when I get asked what is farming I simply think of the Spring first. Spring because we get to finally get back into the fields and take off all the winter crops that we do not harvest during the fall because they are not in their prime yet. I also think of being able to do rock picking in the big GREEN tractors. I love sitting in the tractors and going up and down that long dusty field getting all the rocks out so they do not block seeds from growing. It gets very enjoyable when you have friends that come sit in the tractor with you. Some days if you get stuck in a tractor when the days are hot and you have no air condition you wanna just fall over and collapse. It can get very hot and muggy in that little cab your sitting in.



When the end of the school year comes it seems like everybody in my small town is in the fields. If you would like to hangout with one of us well you better come jump up in the tractor. It seems like when i am in the tractor some of my friends get mad cause in some of my areas i don't get service so i won't get their phone call or text and they can't get a hold of me. which is dumb because some of them don't understand all the things we have to do when we are in the field. The worst part is when you break down somewhere and have to wait till you get one of the boys over to help you out and get the tractor back up and running.



When summer comes it seems like i am always running and doing something. It seems I am running into town to pick up a part or I am running back to the farm to get us something to eat or drink. I don't mind though it's something i like to do. When i go back home for farming it seems like i am where i should be. The great outdoors in the rural life is where i am suppose to be. Its weird but the quote most of us use when we are out there is "We are finally in God's country!" I like driving the 4 wheelers and dirt bikes out and around to the boys but, most i live operating or riding in those big GREEN TRACTORS. Yeah, I got friends with tractors.:)



The best time about farming though is when it's almost harvest time and you look out at those rolling fields with the sunset behind them. all that you can see that comes to it is the beautiful lavender flax fields swaying back and forth right next to the amber waves of grain. though when harvest time comes and all the dust is flying up it becomes a little sad. knowing that the sight of those crops wont come again for another year. :( Though the smell of taking f the crops is an essence of smells you can not make come alive in a perfume or Cologne. It's a smell that you just have to wait and smell again the next year.

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