I just walked the hog barns the 2 that are full and the 3 that are empty-as I sit here unloading feed I’m not ashamed to admit I’m crying a little-seeing an enterprise shut down is never easy when you’ve given it your all & it’s still not enough.
I’m a super poor feminist but I’m driving the tractor/planter down the road & there’s a big semi behind me waiting patiently as I pull over & let the semi come around me it’s a woman driving & she’s all smiling & waving & I’m all smiling and waving & I’m suddenly all GIRL POWER👊
Talking local processing and meat supply chain - this is the most real phrase ever, for all of agriculture.......
"People want Charlottes Web farming with Walmart pricing."
@raecwag
hit the nail on the head!
Just me in my pajamas feeding my fat calves and a bottle calf listening to rain on the barn roof!
Couldn’t be closer to God even if I were in a church pew if I tried!
He combined I caught……for 29 seasons.
No words and all the words. He was stubborn and we worked his way, but he and Chris 100% made me the farmhand I am.
I remember the first time that I realized we were no longer newlyweds-I called and told him I was going to come ride with him in the tractor and he said if you have time to ride you have time to work, go hook up the disc and work such and such field……
30 years farming with this family and still to this day when they say head to “such and such farm” and I’m 99% sure I know where that farm is the feeling of relief when I make it to the correct field is tremendous!!
Three years ago today I got the okay from my cancer dr to walk back in a hog barn- I had no idea how happy that would make me!
Ladies and Gentleman get your junk under the trunk checked!!!
#cervicalcancer
#cancer
#cancersurvivor
#cancersucks
If you need me I’m over her crying in a tractor……..this view and Jason Aldean singing Flyover States coming out of my tractor speakers on the 4th of July!
When I’m the only female customer at an agronomy meeting I always feel the need to stand up and say-“I actually work on the farm I’m not just here for the free meal, although the donuts are a bonus!”
I refused to admit all summer there could be anything but a positive outcome......right here right now I just realized how serious it was-so I cried in the cab of this tractor.
Some days I’d rather be a photographer than a cart bitch- today is that day & I’m pretty sure the combine operator wants to fire me!
All I want is a full combine hopper right in front of these trees for a picture but he keeps expecting me to do my job…..🙄
if we can't plant soon I'm gonna weigh 300 pounds and the grass will be mowed so short it may never come back - baking 3 kinds of cookies today and lowered the deck on mower again so I could mow..........
Chris is constantly telling me to put my phone away I don’t have to have pics of everything but I get to work with 3 generations everyday on our farm and I think that is picture worthy!
If I ever have to do job interviews to hire people first question will be:
“Do you hang toilet paper over or under?”
If the answer isn’t over-interview done-because if you can’t hang toilet paper right how can I trust you with my business!
Shared a pic of my kitchen on Instagram and some woman told me she would have a heart attack if her kitchen got “that messy”-I’m like bitch I was happy it wasn’t messier!!
I’m so fucking sick of mental health drugs being a stigma.......if your muscles ache you don’t turn down Tylenol-why is a chemical imbalance in your body being fixed by medication any different?
#itsnotyourfault
So there’s this little warning sticker on our grain cart that says “FOR FARM USE ONLY” & all fall I’ve been trying to come up with some other use for a grain cart that obviously prompted the need for that warning sticker.........but I’m coming up blank!!
The problem isn’t so much how many generations removed from the farm consumers are the bigger issue is how little marketing agencies know about where food comes from. IMHO Farmers aren’t scaring consumers-marketing is.
5 days ago:
@CGLFarm
- Your bull is dead sell all the cattle - we are done!
Me - {sobbing} I understand
Just now:
Chris: I bought you a Hereford Bull!
Guys this is true love- he loves black baldies and I've been begging for a Hereford bull for years, plus I get to keep my cows!
There is literally no place I feel closer to God and are grateful for his wonders and my life than from the seat of a tractor or in a livestock barn! My view this morning planting beans while Chris plants corn in the field next to me!