Rorhbach reflections

Raymond and Joe Rohrbach, reminiscing about the good old days of farming in Idaho. One of the stories that I keep remembering about Joe running that combine. We was over there on a field and I had him going around the field. Pretty soon he just turned around and started cutting back to the pickup. And I said, well, what'd you do that for? Well, he said, I'm hungry. That's just one of the stories of when he was young doing it. When he got a little bit older, we decided to buy another combine. I'd quit the state police and bought another combine so that he could have one to run. And I run one together. Speaker3: And eventually we ended up buying more and more, and we run up to five combines. When we got to running 3 to 5 machines, we would start out here at Orchard, south of Boise doing dry land grain. We'd cut on that, and when that'd get done, this here was getting ready right here in the Treasure Valley, and we would do that about the time we got done with the grain here. The grain over in eastern Idaho, that's a higher altitude over around Dubois and Blackfoot area. We'd go over there and that grain would just be starting. So we'd cut there. And then in mid-season of that harvest, we'd pull the 2 or 3 machines out and take them below Battle Mountain, Nevada, and do alfalfa seed God's. Speaker1: Work to feed America.