D2o—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, October 13,1984
There is a frankness in rural
America these days that is
allowing farmers and their
families to come forward and talk
about their problems and con
cerns. Traditionally farmers have
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types who dealt with all sorts of
adversities and never batted an
eye. They grew our food, kept our
country side pretty and managed
to get along somehow. In fact,
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most of us think of a farm as an
ideal place to live and raise a
family. Given a choice an awful lot
of American people would like to at
least live on a farm.
Lately some fanners and their
families are starting to talk a little
bit about some problems. Through
the pages of farm magazines and
in farm meetings they are ex
pressing their concerns about their
way of life and their future. And
some are even admitting that
being a farmer or part of a farm
family is not all sunshine, fresh air
and bright tomorrows. There are
those nagging little concerns like
how to pay the mortgage, and
where to get operating capitol for
next year’s production. Some
farmers are starting to complain
about father-son partnerships and
other family business
arrangements, about the stress
created within the family from
long hard hours of work and
economic uncertainties. Some
farm families are even talking
about divorces, father-son
breakups, depression and coping
with the uncertainty of farm life.
Add another topic to the list that
farmers are willing to talk about.
Finding a mate. Perhaps we just
assume that all farmers have
spouses. That they live in neat
white houses at the end of tree
lined lanes where little children
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play in the sunshine and young
livestock romp in grassy fields.
But now some young farmers and
some not so young, both male and
female, are saying that farming at
times can be an isolated oc
cupation with little or no chance
for social contact and a certain
amount of desperation involved in
the pairing up process.
Farmers are saying that the
very nature of their work makes
them less than ideal suitors and
maybe not even particularly good
catches. Their hours can be quite
long and uncertain, so it’s hard for
them to plan a date and then get
there ' on time. Often farm
emergencies preempt everything
else. They don’t get a regular pay
check and so at times may be hard
pressed for cash and cer
tainly there are times when the
adversities of farming make them
less than ideal companions.
The physical location of farms
puts most single farmers at a
disadvantage. Often they are great
distances from population centers
and so come in contact with very
few possible mates. The city
dweller who wants to meet
someone has a hundred choices.
But what about the farmer? Is he
apt to find someone in a singles bar
who’s willing to go back to the
farm and share his life milking
cows, bailing hay, and harvesting
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But that’s not necessarily true u
some of the wide open spaces
where farmers and ranchers ply
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I recall many of the young
farmers back when I was in college
who courted the students from a
nearby girls’ college. Some of
them wooed and won those fan
maidens in the atmosphere of a
university town only to later face
the harsh reality of going back to
the farm. I’ve often wondered how
some of those match-ups worked
out.
The farm boy who marries the
neighbor’s daugther right out of
high school doesn’t face tins
dilemma. But what about the
fellow who gets through college
and waits a few years until he is
established before seeking a mate
Let’s say he goes to town and finds
the girl of his dreams. She is
beautiful, educated, loves him
dearly but isn’t about to give up a
career in her chosen profession to
move to Cactus Flat, South Dakota
or some other out of the way rural
location where there are no job
opportunities. There are also
plenty of farm wise folks who just
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