The 3-year-old boy Lane has no doubt about your future profession: "I'll be a farmer", dream, while moving their little toy tractors on a table in the garage ofthe family farm. If it's true the maximum that the difference between men and boys is the size of your toys, Lane has good reasons for wanting to be a farmer. The toys of your father and your grandfather are giant versions of her, only with more technology and strength. Is with towering tractors, combines, trucks and pickups, among other agricultural equipment to small family Jensen wields virtually alone 2,700 acres of soybean and corn crops in Ankeny, Iowa,in the Midwest region of the United States. Lane's parents, Johnny and Linda, and his grandparents, John and Karen, do all tasks of Jensen Farms with the help of only one employee – by the way, a cabinetmaker. In the Office and in the field, are themselves that roll up their sleeves and do everything, except at the time of harvest, when they hire additional labor in the city to help.

"When I grow up, I'll be a farmer"

If in the past the family farm was arduous and warnyoung people to the cities, today the American model is so successful that even children like Lane andyour sister, Katie, are urged to stay on the field. The two sons of John Jensen, Johnny Ryan, and work on the farms of the father in two States. The Patriarch John, whose family emigrated from Germany to work in the plantations of the United States in the last century, began as a servant for 40 years rural. "I'm not like the traditional farmers. Didn't inherit any land, "says, soon to receive MONEY in your small RURAL property in Ankeny. For decades he leased that land and shared the result of production with the owner. When she died, John scooped the farm. Today, rents many acres around to grow corn (65% of production, on average) and soybean (35%). Your tractors $300,000 each are funded as far as the eye can see. "I don't own anything," he says. He still keeps in an old shed the old John Deere tractor with which it began. "It's nostalgia," he says.