The Struggle of Being a College Farm Kid in the Spring

Spring. Besides summer, it has to be my favorite season of the year. The days are longer, the grass is greener, and the birds start chirping again. Calving and lambing is over, and the babies start bouncing around and having a grand time under the sun. During high school, I LOVED coming home from school to see the babies bouncing around and getting to see them continually developing. I was also able to go outside more and maybe, just maybe, the mud might even be drying up!

Now, as I'm nearing the end of my sophomore year of college, I'm find myself aching to be home and working on the farm, seeing all of the babies, and starting to work more with this years show string. I was able to get my show pigs over spring break, but I haven't been able to really get to know them let alone take them outside. So I've compiled a list of the struggles of the farm kid, in college, during the spring.

• Your parents keep telling you how your favorite cow's calf is looking like the next great one...And won't send you a picture! 

• They turn the cows out on pasture without you. Which seemingly before, they couldn't do it without you! 

• They tell you how much your show animals are growing...but they still won't send you a picture! 

• The warm weather keeps reminding you about what you could be doing outside, yet you're stuck in class (that is probably about farming, making you want to be outside even more!) 

• You just learned to AI and your dad plans to synch the cows during the week when you can't be there and get your practice in

•  The weeks between you and being home for the summer drag on, and on, and on 

• Your favorite part of spring is seeing everything "green-up" and all you're seeing "green-up" is the little bits of green grass that gets trampled by students on campus 

• Sure, you can go to the school's farm and see all the new babies, but it just isn't the same 

This is just a few of the things that I hate about being at college during springtime. A good thing about not being home every week, is that when you go home the drastic changes in the new calf crop or lamb crop is more evident. The awesome thing is, only a few weeks between spring starting and being home for the summer!

 Be sure to comment with some of your favorite things about spring on the farm!