Suburban Plowboy
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The thing that amazes me about the farm is how fancy it is. GPS tractors. Vets coming and going. Fancy pig houses. Indoor sheep areas. A chicken village with chicken condos. Experts all over.
My grandfather had farms, and he grew tobacco, hay, corn, and soybeans. He also raised cattle. Raised pigs one year. I NEVER saw a vet on his property or heard him mention one. If a cow got injured or sick, it was SOL. I saw some horrible things.
The cattle slept out in the snow. The pigs had a shelter that was open on one side. There was no government expert coming in over and over to hold his hand and give him advice. Environmentalism was something he never thought about.
When he got the pigs, a bunch of scary-looking hands took out their pocket knives, held them by the legs, and castrated them while they screamed. They threw the cojones in a pile, and after a short time, the pigs that used to own them wandered over and ate them. No vet. No anaesthesia. No quasi-humane elastrator. Possibly my most traumatic childhood memory.
Are American farms like Clarkson's now? There are a few real farms where I live, and they all look pretty primitive compared to Clarkson's. There is a dairy operation here, there are scrubby cattle all over, and I saw one peanut farm.
Technically, my home is a farm. There are about 10 cattle here that belong to a tenant, and they keep the taxes down. He drops a bale once in a while, and he keeps the automatic trough running. He provided a mineral block. That's about it.
I could not believe the price of that Lamborghini tractor. I looked it up. I can't remember whether it was that one or the same model with reasonable hours. It was like $50,000. Can that possibly be right? That's a whole lot of tractor for that money. It seems like used stuff is unbelievably cheap in England.
I was disappointed when he chose to put his name on a lager. The British Isles are famous for what? Ales. Nobody wants a British lager. Ridiculous.
My grandfather had farms, and he grew tobacco, hay, corn, and soybeans. He also raised cattle. Raised pigs one year. I NEVER saw a vet on his property or heard him mention one. If a cow got injured or sick, it was SOL. I saw some horrible things.
The cattle slept out in the snow. The pigs had a shelter that was open on one side. There was no government expert coming in over and over to hold his hand and give him advice. Environmentalism was something he never thought about.
When he got the pigs, a bunch of scary-looking hands took out their pocket knives, held them by the legs, and castrated them while they screamed. They threw the cojones in a pile, and after a short time, the pigs that used to own them wandered over and ate them. No vet. No anaesthesia. No quasi-humane elastrator. Possibly my most traumatic childhood memory.
Are American farms like Clarkson's now? There are a few real farms where I live, and they all look pretty primitive compared to Clarkson's. There is a dairy operation here, there are scrubby cattle all over, and I saw one peanut farm.
Technically, my home is a farm. There are about 10 cattle here that belong to a tenant, and they keep the taxes down. He drops a bale once in a while, and he keeps the automatic trough running. He provided a mineral block. That's about it.
I could not believe the price of that Lamborghini tractor. I looked it up. I can't remember whether it was that one or the same model with reasonable hours. It was like $50,000. Can that possibly be right? That's a whole lot of tractor for that money. It seems like used stuff is unbelievably cheap in England.
I was disappointed when he chose to put his name on a lager. The British Isles are famous for what? Ales. Nobody wants a British lager. Ridiculous.
