A farm is a lot of work - you'll see people moving more or less non-stop from dawn to dusk and beyond. Most of the work, even with modern machinery, is heavy physical labor, and it takes a lot of eduction to keep the cows well, the crops and grazing properly rotated and healthy, and to ensure that one meets one's state's regulations. Growing up, the vac got raw milk self-serve on the honor system out of a 2000 gallon self-stirring tank. These days, it thought the honor system broken - and then discovered that when cash got left home, and we'd been customers of Dean farms for a while - Rural gets to know people fast, and trusts them only slowly - we were told, "Don't worry - just pay next week." A mom and pop store in the Urban might do this once in a while, but in the Rural setting, much of the honor system is still intact. The vac is *still* surprised by this.