Now this from our most frigid bureau...

In our continuing efforts to keep you up-to-date on Icelandic agriculture, at times we may divert from the seriousness of our task to the light-hearted, or even downright frivolous, report. Today, we have unleashed the clown within to bring you this report on exactly what it is that makes an Icelandic farmer an Icelandic farmer. We would have loved to bring you a firsthand, person-to-person account of just how funny the average Icelandic farmer finds this list, but due to unfortunate travel budget restrictions, we can only offer up this Google-gleaned account:

You might be a dairy farmer in Iceland:

 -If your backyard ends at an electric fence.

-If the kids drinking glasses are milk replacer cups.

-If manure is a dinner table topic.

-If you know the price of milk per hundred weight but not by the gallon..

-If your kids sandbox is an old tractor tire.

-If you have three pairs of Tingley boots and two pair all go to the same foot.

-If the medicine cabinet in your house has a container of bag balm.

-If you’ve ever gotten an award for fat (and were proud of it).

-If your idea of a power lunch is a sandwich on a tractor.

-If your idea of carpentry work includes a chainsaw and bent nails.

-If fence repair is second nature.

-If you can fix anything with baler twine, a piece of wire, duct tape and a pair of vise grips.

-If your idea of a neighborhood watch is someone calling you to let you know your heifers are out.

-If the front door on your house has the key in it all the time so it doesn’t get lost.

-If your idea of mass transit is moving your cows to the crowd area, a holding pen or pasture.

-If most of your good headgear advertises semen or seeds.

-If you have more than a dozen cats.

-If you have more pictures of your cows than of your kids.

-If your idea of overnite delivery is pulling a calf at three in the morning.

-If you can remember the name of every cow on the farm but the names of your children elude you..

For the past several weeks, Lancaster Farming Staff Writer Chris Torres has been sweeping the web for brief items of interest to our readers. His Ag Briefs come in regional, national and international varieties. Look for them every week in the first section.

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