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This describes my dad to a tee! He will anything to stay out of a tractor if farming is involved. Loves his cows though.....

Depending on what side of the family, 1 or 2 generations. My paternal side of the family tried to capture the cattle market from the birth of the calves in the Rockies to their slaughter in the Chicago stockyards--they made it work, for about 15-20 years

Casey

Two . . . Maternal grandparents used to farm.

Three . . . Paternal great grandparents used to farm also.

2 generations. My paternal grandparents homesteaded in NoDak in 1910, my maternal grandparents had a dairy farm in Wisconsin.

My old man worked the family farm until he left for the Air Force back in '60. He used the GI bill to go to school and then computers back when vacuum tubes and paper program cards ruled the day.

Not really sure.

My grand father farmed but also worked at Champion Paper Mill in Canton, NC. Probably made more at the mill but he was always looked upon by the community as a farmer.

Skipped dad I guess. He worked on his dad's farm through high school and right after graduating he played for the Cincinnati Reds ('67-'68) and then got drafted. After his tour was up he went to Fruitland Bible College and has been a Baptist preacher ever since. I married a girl and we live on her grandparents' farm which we try to work. I work for a New Holland tractor dealership and she is a high school nurse to more or less support the farm. The farm survives but we seem to spend every penny we get to keep it running. It's a vicious cycle.

In my job at the tractor dealership I see less and less full time farmers every day. The county in which I work went from 17 working dairy farms to 2 in about 7 or 8 years. Most of the "farmers" do it for supplemental income or just for the love of it. The days of living off of the family farm seem to be rapidly disappearing. Kinda sad but ultimately true. God bless the ones that still do - they earn every penny that they get and it ain't ever enough.

We milked until about 1968 and grew some corn and hay. My brothers and I still own the farm. It's small, 48 acres but it kept us in beef, chicken and pork for years. We cash rent the ground now. kwg

Two generations. Both of my grandfaters were farmers. My dad grew up working on the farm.

One

1.5. My Dad came to town to quit the "hard life" in the fifties, and became a plumber. He wanted a better life for his kids. It worked with my brother and sister. I'm the "sorry" one. But my Dad told someone (in confidence) one time that he is proudest of me...'cause I'm "JUST LIKE HIM". (Tears)

Zero, if your definition of "agriculture" is broad enough to include forestry. My maternal great grandfather was in the Oklahoma Cherokee Strip run and homesteaded about 9 miles north of Alva, OK. and farmed the homestead. My father was a custom farmer/harvester in the TX Panhandle. I worked all my high school years plowing, disking, harrowing, drilling, and harvesting wheat and milo and working in an agriculture equipment business. My stepfather farmed and ranched for a living. The family corporation is still involved directly in farming and ranching.

RLD

My great grandparents homesteaded against the Canadian border in North Dakota. I have cousins still farming in northern Minnesota.

I am an agrologist and commercial turkey farmer, 2nd generation. Dad died just two weeks ago, so we are now the "current" generation I guess. At present I'm only a shareholder in the family farm, my bother and wife run the farm and I do outside work for an engineering company. My wife and I also "farm" a fair bit of hay land, and we do some forestry / silviculture on our bush land. ( it's mostly an elk, moose & deer hunting camp and trapline though!) In the past my wife kept leafcutter bees, did some commercial strawberry production, and a few other small ventures.

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Bullwnkl

Two; both sets of grandparents farmed. My parents both worked on the farm until graduated from school and married, so technically, one generation out. We still plant two gardens each year, and Dad and Mom still remember milking cows, feeding chickens, chopping cotton, slaughtering hogs etc. I grew up in the suburbs, and thus have virtually no farm experiences outside of our gardening.

I gotta bale hay tomorrow...

Zero

I grew up irrigating hay and silage corn, bucking bales, and milking cows. I can hitch a team or drive a tractor. While it is no longer our primary means of support, I still own agricultural property and file a schedule F.

Dang, I feel for you. Finished all of ours the week of the 4th. Still feed an oinker or two and fatten a calf, but I wouldn't call what I do making a livin'. Brother has Cargill hog barns and has done very well for himself.

CK

My Dad and Grandfather farmed, and I worked on the farm until I got out of school. I have worked for farmers a couple of different times since then when I quit the Highway
department. I always ended up back at the Highway Dept. surveying and have over thiry-five years with them. miles

castnblast,
So sorry to hear about your dad Prayers are with your family.
BigMamma