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This article is ridiculous. I’m a farmer and clearly I have time to surf the internet, and separating work from life is absolutely something I do - and my fathe

This article is ridiculous. I’m a farmer and clearly I have time to surf the internet, and separating work from life is absolutely something I do - and my fathers before me. Grandma would’ve never put up with shop talk at the dinner table.

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TaupeRanger 5y ago
A farmer on Hacker News? Please tell me more.
- lapetitejort 5y ago
  Well, I start my day by checking crypto prices. I eat my coffee and toast as I unwrap the new shipment of 3090's...
  - hundchenkatze 5y ago
    I think mining crypto currencies makes you a miner, not a farmer.
    - blackbear_ 5y ago
      But they manage a server farm, not a server mine.
- devwastaken 5y ago
  Also come from farmers. Horses. Hay costs are through the roof because drought and heat, vets are expensive, far and few between. Less demand than ever, and everything is expensive. Glad I'm not in it as much anymore. Would like to be out of it entirely but #family and "Local only" software work half the country away don't mix. The others that operate the farm nowadays are absolutely swamped. Not enough money to do it full time so they work other full time jobs.
  - hycaria 5y ago
    Where and what kind of horses ? In europe there's a sport horse shortage I swear. Prices are through the roof !
- flavius29663 5y ago
  They must be. Remember the farmers "hacking" their tractors with Ukrainian firmware, so they can fix their own John Deer machines?
- gifwithaj 5y ago
  I'm sure you didn't mean to cause offense, but this comment is so incredibly frustrating and highlights the incredible ignorance and stereotyping of rural America that's still common. My reaction to this comment was to shudder the same way as if someone had said "A black person on hacker news? Please tell me more" Modern farmers are polyglot technologists. Hybrid GMO seeds are selected to optimize yield in their specific soil and weather conditions. Tractors are largely self-driving along with a host of technology to rival a race car and harvesters give live feedback on the quality and quantity of grain so that farmers can make decisions about what to do with the grain- sell immediately, store, or take to a specialized storage facility to dry. Crops are rotated seasonally to minimize pests and optimize soil quality, sometimes on complex multi-year patterns of cover crops, cash crops, spring harvests, etc. Underground "tiling" is installed to speed the flow of water away from low-lying sections of fields to maintain consistent soil moisture across fields on rolling hills. And the futures, options, insurance and debt financing decisions to maintain stable income in the face of unpredictable weather and commodity prices rivals what any investment banker in Manhattan is doing. And that's just for commodity grain producers, meat, dairy, fruits and vegetables have their own unique uses of cutting edge science and technology. A group of farmers in Iowa sitting at a conference about managing soil nitrogen are likely leveraging far more real science and tech than a group of web developers in the bay discussing the latest updates to React.
  - cardosof 5y ago
    Thank you for this comment. The internet as a whole needs more of this so we all stop thinking tech and innovation mean a smaller gadget, a new frontend or a VR/AR app.
  - FpUser 5y ago
    >"are likely leveraging far more real science and tech than a group of web developers in the bay discussing the latest updates to React." +1000. For some of those their sense of entitlement to be an "expert" in unrelated field outstrips the actual capacity.
  - TaupeRanger 5y ago
    Yikes...accusing me of something akin to racism seems harsh. I am a musician myself, and am always curious about what brings people from other disciplines to HN. Apologies if I caused any offense.
- sjwalter 5y ago
  There are many of us. https://mulligan.farm https://mulligan.farm
- giantg2 5y ago
  Not the same person, but I have an agricultural license and run an LLC related to beekeeping/honey production. I don't think I would call myself a farmer simply because I don't make a significant amount of my income from it (I think my state sets the bar at 30%)
- chucksta 5y ago
  What is surprising about that? Farmers were are a driving force for right to repair
  - TaupeRanger 5y ago
    Haven't seen much talk about farming here at all. It was just a curious question.
- pueblito 5y ago
  I’m a farmer in southern Colorado. Currently we grow marijuana and potatoes. I’m on HN because because I’m a long time Linux user (20+ years) and free software advocate and this is where a lot of the old bofhs still lurk
bachmeier 5y ago
I grew up on a farm. I remember having conversations with other farm kids complaining about boredom during certain parts of the year. They had literally nothing to do for a few weeks several times a year. During the winter, which was long in North Dakota, there was basically nothing for a farmer (as opposed to a rancher) to do. They would do things of little value to pass the time, maybe they'd overhaul an engine if it was needed, but for the most part they could have watched TV all day if they wanted - and many of them did that or went to the bar. My situation was different because my dad ran a business on the side that was booked a year in advance, and in the winter I was in school.

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TaupeRanger 5y ago

A farmer on Hacker News? Please tell me more.

lapetitejort 5y ago
Well, I start my day by checking crypto prices. I eat my coffee and toast as I unwrap the new shipment of 3090's...
- hundchenkatze 5y ago
  I think mining crypto currencies makes you a miner, not a farmer.
  - blackbear_ 5y ago
    But they manage a server farm, not a server mine.
devwastaken 5y ago
Also come from farmers. Horses. Hay costs are through the roof because drought and heat, vets are expensive, far and few between. Less demand than ever, and everything is expensive. Glad I'm not in it as much anymore. Would like to be out of it entirely but #family and "Local only" software work half the country away don't mix. The others that operate the farm nowadays are absolutely swamped. Not enough money to do it full time so they work other full time jobs.
- hycaria 5y ago
  Where and what kind of horses ? In europe there's a sport horse shortage I swear. Prices are through the roof !
flavius29663 5y ago
They must be. Remember the farmers "hacking" their tractors with Ukrainian firmware, so they can fix their own John Deer machines?
gifwithaj 5y ago
I'm sure you didn't mean to cause offense, but this comment is so incredibly frustrating and highlights the incredible ignorance and stereotyping of rural America that's still common. My reaction to this comment was to shudder the same way as if someone had said "A black person on hacker news? Please tell me more" Modern farmers are polyglot technologists. Hybrid GMO seeds are selected to optimize yield in their specific soil and weather conditions. Tractors are largely self-driving along with a host of technology to rival a race car and harvesters give live feedback on the quality and quantity of grain so that farmers can make decisions about what to do with the grain- sell immediately, store, or take to a specialized storage facility to dry. Crops are rotated seasonally to minimize pests and optimize soil quality, sometimes on complex multi-year patterns of cover crops, cash crops, spring harvests, etc. Underground "tiling" is installed to speed the flow of water away from low-lying sections of fields to maintain consistent soil moisture across fields on rolling hills. And the futures, options, insurance and debt financing decisions to maintain stable income in the face of unpredictable weather and commodity prices rivals what any investment banker in Manhattan is doing. And that's just for commodity grain producers, meat, dairy, fruits and vegetables have their own unique uses of cutting edge science and technology. A group of farmers in Iowa sitting at a conference about managing soil nitrogen are likely leveraging far more real science and tech than a group of web developers in the bay discussing the latest updates to React.
- cardosof 5y ago
  Thank you for this comment. The internet as a whole needs more of this so we all stop thinking tech and innovation mean a smaller gadget, a new frontend or a VR/AR app.
- FpUser 5y ago
  >"are likely leveraging far more real science and tech than a group of web developers in the bay discussing the latest updates to React." +1000. For some of those their sense of entitlement to be an "expert" in unrelated field outstrips the actual capacity.
- TaupeRanger 5y ago
  Yikes...accusing me of something akin to racism seems harsh. I am a musician myself, and am always curious about what brings people from other disciplines to HN. Apologies if I caused any offense.
sjwalter 5y ago
There are many of us. https://mulligan.farm https://mulligan.farm
giantg2 5y ago
Not the same person, but I have an agricultural license and run an LLC related to beekeeping/honey production. I don't think I would call myself a farmer simply because I don't make a significant amount of my income from it (I think my state sets the bar at 30%)
chucksta 5y ago
What is surprising about that? Farmers were are a driving force for right to repair
- TaupeRanger 5y ago
  Haven't seen much talk about farming here at all. It was just a curious question.
pueblito 5y ago
I’m a farmer in southern Colorado. Currently we grow marijuana and potatoes. I’m on HN because because I’m a long time Linux user (20+ years) and free software advocate and this is where a lot of the old bofhs still lurk

bachmeier 5y ago

I grew up on a farm. I remember having conversations with other farm kids complaining about boredom during certain parts of the year. They had literally nothing to do for a few weeks several times a year. During the winter, which was long in North Dakota, there was basically nothing for a farmer (as opposed to a rancher) to do. They would do things of little value to pass the time, maybe they'd overhaul an engine if it was needed, but for the most part they could have watched TV all day if they wanted - and many of them did that or went to the bar. My situation was different because my dad ran a business on the side that was booked a year in advance, and in the winter I was in school.