(Gentle 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 live here.

Man, I don't have another place to be.

I have no other place where you can call it home.

I feel like I'm 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 a boring person.

Actually, my wife say, "Why did I choose farming?"

I say, "I don't know, I just like that."

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

At the time, I was working the, 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 buy another one and pay it off and then another one.

And it was getting more and more and more and pretty soon there 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 job 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.

If the alfalfa, it was not quite right to bail 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.

(heavy breathing) And I tried to move, I tried to wake up, but I couldn't.

I get to the time that I was afraid that I'd never wake up one of these times.

(Wind blowing) To stay awake in the middle of the night, when you already so tired, working so many hours, you're working 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.

My dream, it was 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 in Gooding.

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

Most of what I know now, I learn it 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 a different race.

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

(Gentle Music)