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My dad farmed, my granddad was a farmer. I wanted to be a farmer.

I was a typical farm boy. I liked the farm. I enjoyed the things that you do on a farm, go down to the drainage ditch and fish, and look at the crawfish and pick a little cotton.

It brings up happy old days when I was only a farmer and not an agriculturist.

As a child I had terrible asthma.

But as a young kid, I never did, really have an ambition to be a farmer. I never thought, gee, I would like to farm, and I want to raise these crops. I didn't quite know what I wanted to do.

It has long been a childhood dream of mine to have a farm.

I thought maybe I'd be a farmer. That was another silly notion. I think I'd last about five minutes, being a farmer.

I worked on a farm for a little bit.

Well I was an asthmatic child. So that for most of my childhood I was in bed. Bedridden.

We've got nine generations of farmers in my family, in Warwickshire. And I do feel connected to being a farmer's son. There was a time when I didn't, when I rebelled against it, but there's certainly that sort of work ethic within me.