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Saying that he follows the same rigorous routine every day, industrial farmer Bill Morton wakes up early each morning in order to watch very large machines till his fields.
“Late to bed, early to rise, such is the life of a farmer,” Morton said, dressing in his warmest winter clothes to walk outside and watch his employees use a large mechanized plow to prepare his fields for crop. “This isn’t some cushy white collar job where I get to sit and drink coffee and type at a keyboard all day long. I generally sit outside and drink coffee while loud robots labor in the yard.”
Morton’s mornings begin at about 4:30 a.m., at which time he wakes up, gets dressed, and turns on the sprinklers that automatically distribute water across all 200 acres of the corn crop he owns with Monsanto. He then goes back inside and eats breakfast for two hours before napping.
“What this job teaches you is the value of hard work and persistence,” said Morton, who was paid several million dollars by a large corporation to genetically modify his corn to make it double the size of normal corn. “That’s something farmers have always understood, and that’s something I’ll teach my kids, who won’t inherit this farm because DuPont already bought it for a hefty sum.”
At press time, Morton could be seen working for several hours on his own personal garden.
