What I Learned In A Tractor

I grew up on a small dairy farm in a small town in northern New York where we milked about 70 cows. Growing up I was always seen with my parents doing whatever they were doing trying to help the best I could. We were always busy no matter what day it was and it seemed that's just how it was. At a young age, my parents taught me how to have fun while I was working so I never thought of work as work. At school, i was never interested in what the class was doing because it didn't seem to apply to real life. When I was very young my father always had me in the tractor working the fields for corn and hay. As a little kid, all the moving parts fascinated me and made me wanna know how things worked and how they went together. I started driving tractor about the age of …show more content…
Every March my parents would pick out a special a calf for me to show in the local county fair, working with my calf every morning taught me how to take care of an animal and how to take pride in my work. After the first couple years of showing cows I was hooked, every year since the age of 5 I attended Lewis county fair taking grand champion numerous times. People started to take notice of how hard it was working and how I enjoyed taking care of my animals, so my dad's friends took me and my cow to the new york state fair to show in the junior division. After one week of working my butt off, i only stood 5th, but I didn't care about where I placed as much as how much I learned about how to work and how to enjoy doing it. From there I worked with others people's cows going from show to show most of that summer and early fall, each show learning different methods of taking care of the cows. Growing up on a farm showed me so much about life and how to work.being a farm kid has given me such an advantage over most kids because it has taught me Responsibility, determination, dependability, flexibility and most important work