Tidy Farm Oil on board, 5"x7" $125.00 + $6.00 shipping in US. SOLD This is the same farm as yesterday's post. It is so manicured that it feels like you're on the grounds of a park or museum. Midwest farmers spend long hours on riding mowers cutting many acres around their homes and outbuildings. Here comes one of my crackpot theories: I think that farming has become such an efficient and highly mechanized science that the farmers have more time on their hands these days. Or perhaps for some their small family farms are leased out to bigger corporate operations. Either way, riding the mowers keeps them busy and outdoors where they love to be.