(guitar music) - I born in Guanajuato, Mexico.

I probably didn't brought very much of Mexican heritage.

I feel like I don't have a lot left of that, if I ever did.

You know, I'm over 40 now.

So most of my life I've lived here.

Man, I don't have another place to be, right?

No other place you can call home.

(guitar music) I feel like I'm a pretty isolated person.

I have friends from the little bit of business because that's the people that I know.

And that's the people that I relate with.

I guess that makes me kind of boring person.

(laughs) Actually my wife say why did I choose farming.

I say I don't know.

I just liked it.

I've been doing this for the last 15 years.

At the time I was working eight hours a day for a guy here in Gooding.

And I asked him hey can I buy a machine and run it here with yours?

Soon after that I was able to buy a tractor.

A little more money and I bought another one, and pay it off and then another one.

And it was getting more and more and more.

And pretty soon it was a little too much.

I have a hard time working eight hours for him and after the eight hours in the day go out there and start doing the jobs that I had to do.

I was working for weeks about 20 hours a day.

I did nothing for fun.

I didn't have nobody to give me a ride from one place to another.

So I take the baling tractor to the one certain field that I was gonna do.

(engine turning over) If the alfalfa, it was not quite right to bale right then, I had to wait.

I don't know an hour, maybe two hours or something.

And in the meantime I just curl up in the seat of the tractor and take a nap.

And when I fall asleep I have a hard time waking up.

And I'm trying to move, I'm trying to wake up.

But I couldn't.

It got to the time that I was afraid I never wake up one of these times.

To stay awake in the middle of the night when you're already so tired, working so many hours, you are getting where, I couldn't do much more.

So I've been through a lot to get what I got, or to be where I'm at right now.

I never dreamed to have what I have right now.

One thing after another and get the opportunity to get it, and to live better.

People tell me that I actually like to kill myself because I work so much.

But I feel like I need to.

Not to say that it's worth killing myself, but I was doing just because I needed to do it to feed my family.

And I want them to have something better than I did.

(guitar music) My dream always just to be in this country, but not to have what I have.

Idaho is my home.

I feel like I fit in somehow.

Over 20 years here in Gooding.

So that's the last 20 years that I've been here, I've been here in Gooding.

Most of what I know now, I learned here.

The relationship I got with the farmers and stuff like that you know they make me feel like that's where I'm supposed to be.

I don't remember nobody treating me differently, you know just because I'm a Mexican, or you know, different race.

I don't know where else I could fit better than around here.

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