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Youngest Dixon in a class by himself
Tyler John Dixon is in the hay business! He rented some ground from his dad and the neighbor and planted Beardless barley. He has a bumper crop and it has since been cut and baled, and most of it has been sold.
Part of the Dixon family's succession plan is not to necessarily proclaimed to one of their children, now we are going to teach you all there is to know about farming in 10 easy steps. Instead, succession begins as time goes by and interest grows through living it.
This year, with the COVID shutdown and the closure of school, the Dixons implemented real-time, hands-on education for their ten-year-old, entering-fifth-grade son Tyler John Dixon, who usually goes by Tye.
He has successfully planted two crops on some ground near the family home for two reasons: as a school project and to feed his desire to farm.
Where the John and Laura Dixon family live, the property has about twelve acres which has set idle for a while, except for an occasional pasturing of cattle now and then. Laura has wanted to do something with that acreage for some time, so when school was closed last March, she and John came up with the idea for their youngest child to do something productive and educational with it. With help from his parents, young Tyler decided to seed the twelve acres into barley to cut for hay. By the time of this article, he has swathed, baled and sold most of it.
He also went to his neighbor Ray, to ask if he could plant the two acres sitting fallow by his house, for hay. Ultimately, Tyler planted spring Ryan white wheat to keep for his own use. He needed to fertilize his field, so he went down and spoke with Brian at McGregor's to set up an account. The company in turn made a little deal with him because his dad John had at one time worked at McGregor's.
Presently, Tyler is helping his mom and dad with harvest, hoping to get a chance to drive bank-out wagon on the flat ground.
