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Rethinking Who Belongs on the Farm
Clip: Season 6 Episode 28 | 1m 23sVideo has Closed Captions
Lucas Hill shares how marriage and fatherhood changed his view of women in farming.
Lucas Hill reflects on growing up in a family where farming was largely viewed as a man’s job. Meeting his wife, seeing her work on the farm and becoming the father of a daughter forced him to rethink those assumptions. Hill explains how his perspective changed and why he now sees no reason his daughter could not have a future in agriculture.
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A Shot of AG
Rethinking Who Belongs on the Farm
Clip: Season 6 Episode 28 | 1m 23sVideo has Closed Captions
Lucas Hill reflects on growing up in a family where farming was largely viewed as a man’s job. Meeting his wife, seeing her work on the farm and becoming the father of a daughter forced him to rethink those assumptions. Hill explains how his perspective changed and why he now sees no reason his daughter could not have a future in agriculture.
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Learn Moreabout PBS online sponsorship- (laughs) Yeah, no, she's awesome, man.
My wife is the coolest.
You know, I remember watching a interview you did, and I think it was maybe on the radio, talked to a guy about his daughter was coming in and farming with him.
And I remember being... Having two older brothers and farming and uncles and great uncles and grandpas were farming and stuff, you know, it's a man's job.
And so I always wanted my boy, right?
I always gotta have my boy and this is what we're gonna do.
And then I met my wife and I was like, phew, what am I talking about?
First date we went on and I remember picking her up, and I was like, "Hey, I gotta go to the shed real quick and I gotta move this gooseneck outta the way.
We're moving some stuff."
And we got to the shed and I backed up at the gooseneck and she jumped out and I'm like, "What in the world's going on?"
She jumped out and started hooking me up to my gooseneck.
And I remember saying out loud and kind of like making sure she didn't hear it.
I'm like, "I'm in love.
Like this is it," you know what I mean?
- That was it, that's all it took.
- That was it, that's all it took, one date, and then now we got a little girl of our own, and I'm like, that little girl couldn't do absolutely anything, you know, on the farm side.
- Farming's changed.
It really has.
- I mean, even from when I was a kid, there used to be a lot of more physical, heavy lifting, stuff like that.
It's everything's so precise now that you don't need to be as physically demanding as you used to.
- I'll tell you what though, my wife's mean enough though.
She could throw hay with the best of 'em.
We move cows so she's in there too.
- Oh, is that an insult or a compliment?
- No, she'll know.
She'll know.
- She'll know?
- Yeah.
- Can your wife take ya,
Going All In on an Agronomy Business
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Clip: S6 Ep28 | 1m 21s | Lucas Hill explains how strip-till helped grow a family agronomy business. (1m 21s)
Learning to Farm Before High School
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Clip: S6 Ep28 | 1m 6s | Lucas Hill recalls taking on real farm responsibility at a young age with his brothers. (1m 6s)
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