“We plant watermelon around March 10 to 15 and the gathering season is six weeks if we are lucky. We pick 500 loads and 2,500 are on a load. There are about 250,000 watermelons waiting to be loaded up right now. My dad was a farmer and my brother and I are in this full-time. We also have peanuts, cotton, and cattle. All of the rain was hard on us, it cuts the yield. There are a lot of drowned out spots in the field and it ended the season too soon. The weather is always an issue. You have to love it or you wouldn’t do it. The good crops are rewarding. I work 18 hours a day during the season. Peanuts and cotton keep us busy, but nothing like the melons. We are sending them across the country and into Canada. I make a living off of watermelon, but I don’t care for them and don’t eat them.”
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Where would people be if there were no farmers or ranchers? Thanks for what you do
Proud to be a farmer’s wife right up the road from the fine Courtney family. You’ve got to love Farmington put those kind of hours in most days.
These young kids should have to spend a summer in the water melon field and the hay field throwing square bales. That’s the best argument l know f or deportation. There were 0 concerns about what kids were doing, entitlement, protests, ANTIFA, our work ethics. Then the immigrant workers came and the kids went in the street and they’re are no jobs for them to learn work ethics. Kids had everything handed to then while l and all my friends bought our school clothes and old beat up cars and trucks that we were proud to have. Yep, put these kids in the fields for a summer, you will see a change .