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<blockquote data-quote="Snattlerake" data-source="post: 4244330" data-attributes="member: 44288"><p>There is nothing like American farmers helping each other. It is our heritage and our legacy.</p><p></p><p>These kinds of stories are priceless and very familiar to my own experiences while on the farm.</p><p></p><p>When I was four, Grandpa would come to visit me every morning to 'drink coffee' with me. We would then feed and count the cattle and check the fences. He died later that year.</p><p></p><p>Our farming community was either good friends or relatives and we never locked our houses, barns or vehicles in case someone was in trouble and needed to borrow one.</p><p></p><p>When my neighbor 4 miles away was in the hospital just before harvest, our community got together and combined his wheat and per his instructions, either binned or hauled it to the elevators.</p><p></p><p>Then we worked his ground after combining our wheat and then I could work my ground. At the time, we had just shy of 1,000 acres about 72% in wheat, 12% in alfalfa and the rest in pasture.</p><p></p><p>Dad worked in town as an accountant and I farmed from age ten on through college.</p><p></p><p>The whole community had a beer and nut fry in our barn after every harvest. I was never old enough to drink the beer then they stopped it when I was.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Snattlerake, post: 4244330, member: 44288"] There is nothing like American farmers helping each other. It is our heritage and our legacy. These kinds of stories are priceless and very familiar to my own experiences while on the farm. When I was four, Grandpa would come to visit me every morning to 'drink coffee' with me. We would then feed and count the cattle and check the fences. He died later that year. Our farming community was either good friends or relatives and we never locked our houses, barns or vehicles in case someone was in trouble and needed to borrow one. When my neighbor 4 miles away was in the hospital just before harvest, our community got together and combined his wheat and per his instructions, either binned or hauled it to the elevators. Then we worked his ground after combining our wheat and then I could work my ground. At the time, we had just shy of 1,000 acres about 72% in wheat, 12% in alfalfa and the rest in pasture. Dad worked in town as an accountant and I farmed from age ten on through college. The whole community had a beer and nut fry in our barn after every harvest. I was never old enough to drink the beer then they stopped it when I was. [/QUOTE]
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