I grew up on my grandparents farm, my grandfather was to a certain extent my father figure, I grew up feeding out hay to cattle , by driving his land rover at the age of 3 or 4.
I went to varsity and did an agricultural degree, and met lots of guys who did "Ag" as we nicknamed it, there were 98% males varying degrees of background mostly from farms and their fathers like their grandfathers were all farmers also.
They all grew up completely different to the guys I went to school with, who were brought up in the city by "city fathers". These guys all had a very rounded life but at the same time had been given lots of life skills on at an earlier age รข€" Farm children as a lot of farmers put it are "cheap /free labour sources" = therefore they grow up with dad showing them how to drive cars, trucks, tractors, working with livestock and also machinery. ... read more >>
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