Farmer: Potato Farming

Introduction
I don’t really know how one becomes a farmer. My folks owned a farm, I helped farm it. They died, gave me the farm, and I still farm it. I mean, I hire some guys sometimes, we got a couple of dudes who come in in the summertime to bail hay, but they ain’t farmers, and don’t consider themselves such. Well, if you want to be a farmer, I think you got to go buy a farm.

Job Function
There isn’t anything better in the world than being a farmer. Getting dirty and having the sun beat down on you, living on just the sweat of your brow and the fruit of the earth. It’s liberating, really. Advertisement
Lifestyle
If you’re a farmer, you ain’t just a guy who farms to make a living; you have to be a farmer through and through, morning, noon, and night. There ain’t a moment's rest, ‘cause your livelihood is based in those crops. Anything goes wrong with them, and you’re up a creek.

Additional Information
I grow mostly potatoes. It’s good business, they’re just about the easiest damn things to grow (a bitch to harvest, though) and people will always be buying potatoes.