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How many generations are you removed from agriculture?
In other words, how far down the family tree do you have to go to find a farmer, rancher, trapper, etc. who made their living from the land?
I am two generations removed. My fraternal grandparents were crop farmers and latter, dairy farmers.
I attribute many of my values and ethics to my early exposure to that life style and the influence of my parents / grandparents. I am curious about the values, ethics, and lifestyles among hunters and outdoorsmen and wondering if there might be a correlation.
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I may not be smart but I can lift heavy objects
I have a shotgun so I have no need for a 30-06.....
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Hmm - my father use to make his living as a tree farmer than moved on - dunno if that counts. Otherwise simply my Grandparents were tree farmers and involved in the evergreen business.
Learned a lot about how to treat people from them and the value of family combined with hard work.
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I harnessed hitched and drove draft horses for a farmer I worked for while I was in high school.
My maternal grandfather never lived in a house with indoor plumbing or electricity. At one time he owned 26 draft horses.
Two generations. His values are a part of me.
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Two, but the origional family farms are still owned by the family.
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Maternal grandparents farmed
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My Dad, brothers and I made our living farming until the late 70's. When Grandpa passed on, Dad and Uncle sold the farm.Changes in zoning changes, available farm labor and taxes made small family farms harder to hold onto back then.. Jim
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Three generations for me
Both sets of my great-grandparents were farmers. My grandparents transition into industrial jobs in the years following WWII
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Made a living, or supplamented thier income? My dad still ranches as does my brother. IMO there are very few opperations that can soley make it by farming or ranching. Especially if the land wasn't inherited.
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Two. Sure adds a different perspective when you know how to do things for yourself. Father raised his own dairy cows until he could drive and then headed to the city that did not include slopping hogs or dragging a cotton sack.
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depends.........does it have to be direct or can i branch over to uncles? if direct 2, my maternal grandfather raised wheat and cattle till he retired from wheat in 2000(he quite with cattle in the mid 80's). one of my maternal uncles still this does here. another uncle(this one is one of my dads brothers) had an orchard in the Yakama Valley. hell now that i think about it my half brother was running his grandparents farm till just a few years ago mainly doing barley and cattle. i still help out one of my paternal grandfather's brothers during branding season. one of my other great uncles is raising horses.......
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I have farmed deer and operated a hunt preserve for 10 years.
My Father was a dairy farmer..........
My Grandfather was a dairy farmer/ Livestock dealer..........
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Two for me, My Mother's family operated a large farm in Ireland.
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My grandparents on each side were farmers. I have several uncles and cousins who farm the same land. I've spent a lot of time on each one and worked for one uncle from the time I was 12 to 16.
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I'm one generation outta the cotton fields of the boothill of Missouri.
My grandfather on my dad's side was killed by a 12 guage back in the mid 20's,... details are sketchy,... but he left a woman with 5 sons. My dad was the baby of the family.
All the boys pitched in by pickin' cotton. They lived in a series of abandoned houses for a spell until my grandmother married Mr Bivins,... who, during his younger days had been a hand on the King Ranch.
My dad used to tell me how they kept the house heated during the winter.
The boys would wait alongside the railroad tracks,... then when a train came by they'd all jump on it,.. work their way back to a coal car and throw coal off the side. After a bit they'd jump off then walk back,... pickin' up the coal along the way.
He'd tell me how the boys didn't particularly like Mr Bivins. Apparently, he was a hard ass.
He said that Mr Bivins had an old Dodge,...but when he was headin' into town to get his buzz on he'd ride his horse.
The horse knew the way back. The Dodge didn't.
One night the boys were sittin' on the porch. Mr Bivins had ridden into town to have a few drinks. After a while here he comes along on the horse,... got it gallopin'.
Dad said that there was a little bridge across a creek that led onto their property. A recent flood had left it covered with buckshot mud.
Mr Bivins,.... drunk,.. rounded the bend on the gallopin' horse and headed across the bridge.
The horse hit the mud and all four feet shot out from under him. During the ensuing "ker-plop",.. Mr Bivins caught the saddle pommel right in the belly.
All the boys ran out to check on him.
He was layin' there with the wind knocked out of him makin' these "quack quack" noises.
My dad,.. a little shaver, looks up at my Uncle Harvey, who was the oldest of the bunch at about 15 or so and asks, "Is he gonna die?"
Uncle Harvey says, "Hell,... I don't know,..... and I don't care".
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I thought we were rid of you... My late father grew up on a farm in Illinois and went off to college, WWII, then law school. In later life he bought a farm and went broke, farming melons. I bought off a small piece of one of his farms and am now following in his footsteps.
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Can't really say how far removed I am. One of my great-grandfathers on my dad's side was an immigrant, and worked as a hired hand for some homesteaders. His wife was also an immigrant. However, farming/ranching was not his life's work. That's all I know about any of my great-grandparents. None of my grandparents were farmers.
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Not a farmer, but I have worked in agriculture since about age 6. First memories are of hauling shocks of wheat to a stationary thrashing machine and cutting tobacco (early 50's. I did row crop work to get through college and have been with extension and agricultural research service since. 1Minute
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None- I own a farm in eastern Colorado.
It's about 15 miles from where I grew up, and where my father and grandfathers both farmed.
Farming is not my primary means of earning a living, however- my occupation as a petroleum geologist takes care of that.
I'd rather be a free man in my grave, than living as a puppet or a slave....
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