The family farm plays such a big part in my life and I genuinely love going back there. In some ways I'd like to spend every day there, but there would be a big hole in my life if I didn't stay involved in cricket.
The greatest job I ever had was working on my family farm. Each morning my father would come into my bedroom around 4:30 am and command me to get up and work the fields. I would spend the next two hours before school slopping pigs and cropping tobacco.
The small family farm is dying; people's lives are being dislocated.
I hope that the Senate acts quickly to pass this legislation so that Americans will no longer worry about having to sell the family farm or business to pay taxes after the death of a loved one.
I was raised on a family farm in western Minnesota. So I didn't have the background to prepare me for this business life.
The family farm is the foundation for who we are as a Commonwealth. And for over a century, the family farm in Kentucky has centered around one crop: tobacco.
As a young girl, I plowed the fields of our family farm. I worked construction with my dad. To save for college, I worked the morning biscuit line at Hardees.
I have spent my life reassembling the family farm.
Well, I was born in El Paso, Texas, it was in the nearest hospital to the family farm.
Having grown up on a family farm, I am all too familiar with the effects a drought can have on a crop.
