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<blockquote data-quote="SoonerP226" data-source="post: 4095074" data-attributes="member: 26737">That&#039;s pretty much it. If you&#039;re just farming, there&#039;s always work to be done, but not all of it has to be done right now. If you&#039;re raising livestock, there&#039;s stuff that has to be done every day, so someone has to be there to do it. It doesn&#039;t necessarily have to be you, but it has to be someone reliable.The type of livestock matters, too. If you&#039;re raising beef cattle you might get away with having a neighbor check the water and feed while you&#039;re gone, but dairy cows have to be milked every day, rain or shine, come hell or high water.I&#039;m probably a bad one to ask about vacations, though. In my 25 years on the job from which I retired, I took a single vacation that consisted of three days off of work. At my current job, my &quot;vacation&quot; consisted of working half days from my mom&#039;s kitchen while I was cutting, raking, and baling hay...</blockquote>

[QUOTE="SoonerP226, post: 4095074, member: 26737"] That's pretty much it. If you're just farming, there's always work to be done, but not all of it has to be done right now. If you're raising livestock, there's stuff that has to be done every day, so someone has to be there to do it. It doesn't necessarily have to be you, but it has to be someone reliable. The type of livestock matters, too. If you're raising beef cattle you might get away with having a neighbor check the water and feed while you're gone, but dairy cows have to be milked every day, rain or shine, come hell or high water. I'm probably a bad one to ask about vacations, though. In my 25 years on the job from which I retired, I took a single vacation that consisted of three days off of work. At my current job, my "vacation" consisted of working half days from my mom's kitchen while I was cutting, raking, and baling hay... [/QUOTE]

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