We know how many hats farmers wear but do you? Agronomist, mechanic, economist, teacher, communicator, advocator, supervisor, environmentalist, veterinarian, entrepreneur are just some (and that doesn’t include farmers with other outside jobs).  Today we are adding another to the list: Quotemaster.  Here are 20 sayings we grabbed from farmers in Illinois.

1. Wow, that’s so early the chickens aren’t even up yet
2. You could tear up a bulldozer
3. We’re burning daylight 
4. That pig went through there like a dose of epsom salts through the hired boy
5. Plant in the dust and your bins will bust
6. Rain makes grain
7. Those beans are popping
8. Looking for the bats
9. Farming is not all cows, sows and plows
10. Ma is callin, dinner is ready
11. I’ve done more this morning than you’ll do all week
12. That dog’ll hunt
13. Back when it rained for 40 days and 40 nights, we only got one inch
14. Pray for rain, but pay for crop insurance
15. When someone slept in, “What happened? Your bed break down?”
16. Complaint department’s on the roof and the elevator’s broke
17. Ain’t nothin but a wheat whacker
18. Ofcourse I talk to myself. Sometimes I need expert advice
19. You can’t get finished what you don’t get started
20. We live our lives by the seeds of our plants

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