Tom & Laura Field--Leading With Purpose

Do you want your kids to eventually enter the ag industry in some capacity? Is that a desire?

I think we would love that.

We want them to make their choices and we recognize they have a lot of choices.

We also, we were having this conversation the other day.

So we have three older kids.

Tom and I got married when they were teenagers.

So every time I feel angst about raising teenagers, I remind myself we've done this once before.

So none of them are working in agriculture, but they do a lot of adjacent stuff to ag.

And so I think our hope is that they get exposed to a lot of things.

They were born the year we moved to Lincoln, so they've grown up with the Engler program.

They're Engler babies, and so we've taught them about entrepreneurship and all the things that they've gotten to do.

But we live on an acreage, so they get to be around livestock.

They get to be outside.

So I think we would hope that that would be some part of their makeup one day.

Yeah, I'm with Laura, and they've got it aside.

What I'm hopeful is that they will learn, and really all five of them have learned it in some ways, is that there's value in the work.

And our oldest, a couple of them in particular, really like what we do on the ranch.

They just happen to have very lucrative careers.

And so you wouldn't want them to change their wealth profile.

But there's something special about what we get to do in ag.

I mean, I just drove back from Colorado last night, and in the previous three days, I spent about 32 hours on a tractor stacking hay.

And it's awesome.

You know, you've got coyotes running alongside you, jumping mice as you're moving bales, you know, two really cool animals.

young buck deer that, you know, sitting up in the willows as we're going along, and you're in the midst of God's creation.

So I hope they learn to appreciate that, and if it leads to a full career in production ag, that would be great, knowing how hard it is.