And if you did, what kind?

Beef cattle farm here

9/30/2009 10:47:30 PM

k

9/30/2009 10:48:21 PM

i helped work a family dairy farm but didn't grow up there

9/30/2009 10:48:39 PM

does an ant farm count?

9/30/2009 10:49:25 PM

I grew up around alot of farms, but never on a farm

9/30/2009 10:50:18 PM

The cow farms on I-5 in California smell like shit when you drive by. Almost made me not want to eat steak on days I drove by. Almost.

9/30/2009 10:50:57 PM

Largest chicken farm in eastern NC ftw!

I was like 5 but I remember it! Giant snow storm collapased all our chicken houses, we sold the scraps and moved into town. We also raised pigs and chickens for personal use.

9/30/2009 10:51:05 PM

Silk Hope, NC representing.

I grew up on a Gentleman's Farm.

(a couple of horses, couple of cows, some chickens, etc)

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9/30/2009 10:51:48 PM

I'm a lead farmer, motherfucker!

9/30/2009 10:52:05 PM

Whoa, chicken coops smell so bad. I do not envy you.

I think cow pastures smell way better than hog pens and chicken coops.

And ant farms count.

9/30/2009 10:53:03 PM

Quote :

"We also raised pigs and chickens for personal use"

you did, did you

9/30/2009 10:53:10 PM

Think chicken coops times 1000. These were big ass houses holding thousands of chickens per house. And yea it was pretty rotten

9/30/2009 10:55:14 PM

Personally, i dont think chicken houses are that bad except for the ammonia. We have 4. Also beef cows.

9/30/2009 10:57:18 PM

I do not miss curtain-sided chicken houses in the winter

9/30/2009 10:58:45 PM

5 chicken houses, couple hundred acres of soybeans, couple hundred acres of tobacco.

9/30/2009 10:59:20 PM

tobacco, hort crops and quail. now its forage finished beef on the weekends with my brother.

9/30/2009 11:00:31 PM

I guess I'll elaborate. We have approximately 130 head of angus, hereford and angus/hereford mix on about a 500-acre farm.

9/30/2009 11:02:59 PM

I didn't grow up on a farm, but I did live enough in the country to learn to drive on a tractor.

9/30/2009 11:03:57 PM

i had some chickens


does that count?

9/30/2009 11:04:38 PM

How many chickens?

There's a huge difference between a hobby farm and a business farm. Taxes. Ick.

9/30/2009 11:11:33 PM

Grandma lived on a farm and kid-sat me a bunch.

beef cattle, corn, string beans, okra, squash, strawberries...

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9/30/2009 11:13:26 PM

not enough for a business farm, lol



i do <333 cows and chickens, though

9/30/2009 11:13:40 PM

Newport, NC

Didn't live on a farm, but a relative did, my parents worked on them in youth, and my friends did.

I prefer the city, personally.

9/30/2009 11:14:41 PM

I def prefer the city, but I like visiting the farm on holidays. it's a welcome change of pace from Orlando.

9/30/2009 11:19:18 PM

Post. Havelock, NC represent.

We leased the field lands out to a local farmer(tobacco, corn, soy beans). We use the pastures for the horses. My mom has 4 and she lets her friend keep hers at our barn as well.

A quick picture tour below:











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9/30/2009 11:45:28 PM

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9/30/2009 11:45:39 PM

130 head is pretty small



I didn't grow up on our family's farm (lived in farm town) but I was 5mi from it

2400 acres
corn/soybeans
3000 head cattle

10/1/2009 12:00:08 AM

i didn't grow up ON a farm, but I grew up right in the middle of a bunch of tobacco farms. Also, my grandfather (whom I grew up 3/4 of a mile from) had a "garden", but by "garden", I mean 2 pretty good sized fields with rows and rows of all sorts of vegetables and stuff. I would say that it pretty much constituted a small farm, and I spent a whole shit ton of hours in those fields from the time I was a little kid up until I was a teenager. It would've been enough to supply a good sized booth at the Farmers' Market with a variety of different kinds of produce.

He had/has a FarmAll 100 and a medium-sized John Deere, along with various plows, discs, rake, bush hog, etc. Also kept probably a dozen or two head of black angus, and for a while had some goats.

10/1/2009 2:00:41 AM

I'm pretty sure I've been on your land at some point, ALKatraz.

10/1/2009 2:11:13 AM

johnston county tobacco farm represent.

my great-great grandmother, my great-grandfather and great-grandmother and their ex-slaves who remained with the family are all buried on the land my family still owns in J.C. (outside Selma)

i gotta be honest tho, i never did a full day's work on a working tobacco farm. i just helped enough to say i put my hands on it. i grew up in suburbia.

10/1/2009 3:13:20 AM

Tobacco/beef cattle farm

10/1/2009 4:19:26 AM

wilson county tobacco farm

with wheat, corn, and soybeans

dabbled in cucumbers

had sweet potatoes and pigs as a small child

beef cattle as well

10/1/2009 4:52:10 AM

what are you doing up so early (or late )?

this better not effect tonights bar escapades

10/1/2009 6:39:48 AM

we had two chicken houses (layers) and a couple fields my grandaddy tended

10/1/2009 7:26:13 AM

Quote :

"130 head is pretty small "

I never claimed it was big. But for a family of four with no farmhands, it kept us busy. My parents run another business, so they can't dump all their time into farmwork. But it does take up the remainder of their free time.

10/1/2009 8:00:34 AM

^^^well you're going to be mad at me then...


it's supposed to rain tomorrow evening so i have to be home first thing in the morning...like 8ish...

and we all know that ain't happening if i go out tonight

10/1/2009 8:27:34 AM

Quote :

"I'm pretty sure I've been on your land at some point, ALKatraz."

I lived off Greenfield Heights blvd. You can pretty much take off down the power lines from behind my house and get to Newport on a fourwheeler. Better not let the Croatan National Forest people catch you though!

theDuke866 has probably seen my land from the air a couple times. It's actually a waypoint for one of the runways at Cherry Point(or so I've been told by some pilots).

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10/1/2009 8:47:59 AM

ostriches, llamas, alpacas, berries, orchards

10/1/2009 8:53:48 AM

nope but my family has a 1/3 share in a farm in Louisiana

10/1/2009 11:06:59 AM

My grandparents had a small farm operation. They grew tobacco as their cash crop, but I remember them always having a field of corn and a field of watermelon. They probably produced a lot of other foods, especially in their later years, but I don't remember them.

They had a hog pen...I don't know how many hogs. Maybe 20 or so per year? Slaughter day was a huge feast. There were about 10-15 chickens running around the yard that provided eggs and meat. They had little chicken houses on the sides of the tobacco barns. All the barns had a little carport like thing that hung off the side, covered by a metal roof, and that's where the tractor and all the equipment would get stored.

It was always a lot of fun to go out there when I was growing up. We were in the city, but I could go out there and shoot guns, ride go karts, etc.

Only one of my aunts kept farming. They own over 2000 acres and did some of everything, but peanuts were their big thing. Now they are retired and they lease the land out to other farmers and a hunting club. Their son got started with a free farm of his own as soon as he graduated high school, but he is out of it now. Out of his first four years two were disasters due to hurricanes and/or tornadoes.

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10/1/2009 11:15:52 AM