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Automated farm equipment is amazing now. Even small operators can use software that dispenses different amounts of water, nutrients, fertilizer or whatever on different parts of a field, based on a map deveoped from soil testing and last year's yield - as measured by harvesters that weigh how much material gets harvested from every spot on the field. The operator's main job is to be there in case something goes wrong.

I dated a farm girl for a few years. Up hours before sunrise, you're always lugging some large container/bag of something or making a million trips to handle it. None of them mechanize everything. It's way easier than the dumb tractor days but it's still no f'ing joke.

I'm in the best shape I've been in about 2 decades, and you know what my hobbies have been since spring of last year?

Amateur farmer, construction worker, and landscaper. And I guess mechanic too, to a lesser extent.

I live in a pretty standard suburban US neighborhood of single family homes, but my little fenced-in back yard is an active construction zone rather than a patch of grass.

My oasis is coming along pretty well. I can't wait to share it with those around me once it's more presentable.

I know its a joke, but man I just bailed hay yesterday and I'm really feeling it. My nephew had his first time bailing, fella looks like a bit of a twig, and I could tell he was struggling with it. As is usual, I had to pickup the slack, just as my family did when I was new to bailing as a kid. Bet he can't wait until the next field is ready next week.

For everyone who's a valedictorian, there's another hundred out there who weigh a hundred and thirty pounds—and they've got calves the size of cantaloupes because they're hauling seventy-five pounds of marijuana across the desert.

~ U.S. Representative Steve King (R-IA) in 2013.

I get it's a joke, but... The strapping-est kids I knew growing up were farm kids. Throwing hay bales gets you jacked. I have also driven the air-conditioned tractor around all day though too.

They "wouldn't wouldn't last"? So they WOULD last. Double negative cancels itself.

Is that what you're saying?

Your fake farmer toughness wouldn't last a day working in an artificially-lit, soul sucking office cubicle for someone else's profit!

Ha! Gotcha farmers!

Now if you'll excuse me I'm now going to cry.

I needed more physical fitness working at Tesla glueing cars together than I did on any of the farm jobs I've worked. But to be fair, the only farm work I haven't done is harvesting things like strawberries and whatnot, which are normally done by hand around here.

Day on a farm:

But, to be fair, there is a difference between strength you get in the gym and practical strength. Its a lot of factors and i dont wanna write an essay but it is (kind of) true.

Wouldn't wouldn't

does that work like a double negation?

Granted you paid for that John Deere update.

only semi related but ive been gifted with soft skin, the kind that old men would handshake and say "you never worked a real day in your life!" i work a blue collar job. some people are just gifted.