My, how things have changed!!

David from Kansas · Jul 14, 2013

Driving down the road the other day glancing at the wheat stubble fields. The conversation at the local feed and fuel store between two farmers 50 years ago might have been something like this: "Done plowin' yet?" "Nope, bout 30 acres left, should be done in a couple of days".

Today it would go more like "Done sprayin' yet?" "Nope, got a couple thousand acres left, should be done in a couple a days".

JRSutton · Jul 14, 2013

better than around here where that conversation has turned into "done mowing your lawn?" "nope, haven't started yet, but should only take a few minutes".

Every time you turn around, a new house pops up.

john in la · Jul 14, 2013

In some areas it goes more like this.

"Did the lawn get mowed yet"
No the lawn guy comes tomorrow.
See you later I am going to the gym for a workout.

notjustair · Jul 14, 2013

I thought of that the other morning. While I was running a load of wheat to town the neighbor was drilling beans into the stubble. Back 30 years ago it would have been me out in that tractor, but I would have been dragging a disc every which way with a packer behind it. You didn't think about putting a crop into a field that had anything but powder fine dirt showing. I think the packer had more miles on it than any car on the place. Now everyone talks about compaction. Maybe we were ahead of our time!

thesmoothedeere · Jul 14, 2013

My favorite quote ever . " i don't hate people ,i just like it better when they aren't around "

Spook · Jul 14, 2013

I was curious about a local dairy farm, I thought they were pretty big, I talked to a friend's son, he works for them, 2500 cows, 12K acres. I knew they were big, I just didn't think that big.

Texasmark1 · Jul 14, 2013

How true. However, around here if you go to a gym it would be in a metropolitan area and THE GUYS DON'T GO THERE FOR THE WORKOUT, er ah exercise, NEITHER DO THE GIRLS.

Don't believe me just look at the type cars in the parking lots, what gets in and out of them, how they are dressed and made up!

Mark

ShadetreeRet · Jul 14, 2013

Around here its, Mowed your lawn yet? "No, but it's gonna take a while if it ever stops raining!"

mb58 · Jul 15, 2013

After reading the post and the replies below, I'm reminded of something I see quite often at my job. We do construction work and one of the things we do after a hiring interview is give a skills test. Hands on type stuff, but nothing hard. Part of it is handing them a chainsaw and telling them to crank it. You should see the looks and responses we get. I am always amazed that out here in a very rural part of the country, that men, some of them up to age 35 have no clue how to even begin to crank a chain saw. I guess they do stay in the gym to much.

My, how things have changed!!

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