No Gasoline Farmer! 

This and canning cooking home economics needs to be taught in school as well as animinal husbandry

John Deere probably.

Me too.

It was mesmerizing to watch. We stayed for about 90 minutes till they finished the entire field.

me too

I agree

Intrusive as hell asking for phone/website. Anybody in local area who wants grass mowed knows Jack. Not as if dimwits in SLC are going to call Wyoming to have their 5 AC "ranchette" mowed. Idiot media.

That's about right. I've recently learned that in the 1920s big banks started offering cheap loans to farmers to buy tractors, implements and fertilizers. Then when the Great Depression hit many farms could no longer pay on their loans and their farms were taken. (Reading an interesting book now called The Creature from Jekyll Island)

@@UtahStories Prior to the 20's the farms were far more diversified, profitable and independent. Everything that a family needed came from the farm. When the tractor and implements were first introduced, farmers could see the potential backlash from going into debt to buy something that they didn't really need and let alone pay interest for it. This was around the same time that USDA began pushing "specialization" farming over general farming. This was also when the banks started plotting to move us away from money backed by gold toward money backed by debt. That began the whole downfall of the family farm. I am not a conspiracy theorist, but this is how history played out. The money that we have in our pocket is someone's debt.

Back in early days of mechanization, some of the local tractor dealerships would cut their price if you brought your team in "for trade". ......yeah right, "for trade". Those teams went to slaughter the next day thus eliminating a competitor.

Yeah it's better to have nothing for them to do so they get sent off to slaughter in Canada or Mexico.🙄 You think people will spend $ to feed a large animal who has no work?

Work is not abuse. A fit athlete doing the work it was bred to do is not suffering. Talk to a logger or hockey player someday, ask him if he'd rather be sitting in a box doing nothing. There are millions who left farming, which is a real slog, not because of the effort, which they enjoyed, but because they couldn't make it pay. People who've spent their lives in enforced idleness just don't get this.

I can tell you this that those horses aren't putting those square bales in the barn. That 72 year old man is .