Cleaning up the seed wheat.

I love my job!

That's sweet. Take it into the city on the weekend and make some extra cash haha

I should turn it into an uber.

Only problem is that it only does about 5mph and the closest city is 25 miles away.

Haha yeah, that's a little problem

That's only 5hrs.

Completed my longest haul to date. Delivered 5000gal of water to one of our outlying fields. 30 miles out from the farm.

Back at the farm loading up 5000 more gallons.

I was slowing down way to early on my return trip. It's amazing how much of a difference 40,000lbs makes.

Christ, I should've gotten my CDL when I had the chance

If you go work on a farm you don't need a CDL within 100mi of the farm. At least that's how it works here. I basically just did a few really short hauls with unloaded trucks and my boss in the passenger seat, but I recently started driving solo. I probably have less than 3 hours behind the wheel. Sometimes I think it's crazy the level of trust these guys have.

@Der Seeteufel - SD the sheer scale of ya’lls operation is staggering.

@Deleted User part of the reason I keep getting bigger and bigger jobs is that there is no one else to do it. Just think, we farm tens of thousands of acres with 7 full time employees including the boss. It keeps getting harder and harder to find temporary workers too. Most of the guys we hire during busier times are in their 50s or older. There's opportunity out here if young guys are willing to look for it.

@Der Seeteufel - SD why do you suppose it’s hard to come by young workers?

I think it's 2 fold. The price of farm labor is driven down by immigration and farmers are having fewer children. It also doesn't help that most farmers kids end up going to college and moving away. My grandfather had 6 sons and only one of them continued to work in agriculture, and it's only getting worse.

@Der Seeteufel - SD Howdy Andrew. New recruit here from down in Texas. Do you happen to have any experience with smaller operations, say involving greenhouses and aquaponics? Or 50-100 acres?

@Mikolas sorry but I am actually pretty new at this myself and I work on a 26,000 acre grain farm.

When your significant other complains about vacuuming show them this.

Someone left a gate open on the leg system and we put 10,000 bushels of corn on top of 40,000 bushels of wheat. Only thing to do is suck it off the top with a 200hp vacuum cleaner.

We've gotten about one truck load out

So my girlfriend asked me, "What did you do all day?" Oh nothing much just sat knee deep in corn and watched a giant vacuum.

I'm going to be doing this all day too. 3 hours per truck and probably 3 or 4 more trucks to go.

I'm off vacuum duty they needed another cart driver!

Corn harvest has begun.

I hauled 575,000 lbs of corn today. I just did the math and thought "Holy crap! That's a lot of corn."

That is a whole lot of corn

78,000 pounds of corn!

My boss just said we're hiring 2 South Africans next year. I think I'm getting through to him.