The Past

I have heard stories of farmers past. How they milked each cow by hand, carried the milk buckets and poured them into a bigger bucket, how they raised animals for the meat and used every part of that animal, and all the work it took just to be a farmer.

Some people say that farmers now have it made. They have pipe that carries the milk to the bulk tank. They take animals in some where to get butchered, and they have REALLY big tractors to do the field work. I would have to agree that farming has changed, A LOT. But still is the same in some ways.

For Noel and I, we still seem to work hard. We still worry about the weather. We are always watching the milk and grain prices. We still milk our cows every 12 hours. We still feed calves. We have one tractor and lots of pitch forks. We do a lot of manual labor, compared to the bigger farms around us.

Our dream is to get bigger and bring me home, out of the group home. If all goes well, I will be home by 2013. For now, we talk to people and find out how to improve, we share stories, and keep praying.