Growing Up On The Farm: Then And Now
Author: Gabriel Adams

Growing up on the farm used to be a tough proposition. Now with
all of the technology that is available, it is much easier to
grow up on a farm than it was in the past. Still not easy,
though. In the not too distant past, farmers used to be the
toughest, smartest, and thriftiest people in the nation. At the
present time farmers rely heavily on their machinery to bring in
their crops. However you must give some love to the farmers of
America, because without them we would be lacking fruits and
vegetables to eat. Also they perform all of their work and
their crops are worth less and less every year, because of the
technological advancements that have been made. It is ironic
that the very thing they use to make their jobs easier actually
makes them work harder to make the same amount of money. It was
a much more straightforward life for farmers in the early days.


In the past farmers would wake up before dawn to start working
in the fields to make sure that their crops were the best crops
possible. Farmers used to use many different types of hand tools
and animals to help them get their job done. Nowadays farmers
rely on many different types of machinery to work their crops
on the farm. I think that one of the major differences between
farmers of old and the new breed of farmers is the ability of
farmers to make things work when they have a problem. In the
old days a tool would break, or the barn would leak, and the
farmer would figure out a way to fix it with the materials that
they had at their disposal. Today a farmer will just call a
repairman, or take their machinery into the shop to get it
fixed. My father-in-law grew up on a farm and he has an uncanny
ability to make things worth without spending very much money to
do so.

I do not want people to think that I do not have respect for
farmers, because I have a tremendous amount of respect for
them. However I think that farmers in the old days worked much
harder, and had more hard learned skills than the farmers of
today. A farm is definitely a hard place to grow up now, but
many people died, or were worked to death in the past, so we
need to remember the farmers that blazed the trail before all
of the technology of today's farm.


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