As a testament to exactly how many hats Kent Blunier owns, he offers, “I haven’t had the same hat on twice since I started it.”
“It” is “Farm Hats,” a public Facebook group that has grown in just a month to nearly 1,000 members.
“Well over 100” is the number of actual farm hats Blunier, who farms with his father Stan on the family’s grain and pig farm in rural Livingston County, claims.
“If you ask my wife, it’s much more than that,” he conceded.
Blunier started the group after being inspired by a story about a farmer’s many hats.
“It talked about the hats that farmers wear, literally and figuratively. In the morning you could be a welder, and in the afternoon, we’ve got pigs, so I could be a veterinarian,” he said.
A combination of new farm technology and inspiration from fellow farmers resulted in “Farm Hats.”...more
HT: Amanda Radke in BEEF Daily
Issues of concern to people who live in the west: property rights, water rights, endangered species, livestock grazing, energy production, wilderness and western agriculture. Plus a few items on western history, western literature and the sport of rodeo... Frank DuBois served as the NM Secretary of Agriculture from 1988 to 2003. DuBois is a former legislative assistant to a U.S. Senator, a Deputy Assistant Secretary of Interior, and is the founder of the DuBois Rodeo Scholarship.
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