Your dog rides in your ute more often than your wife.
You have never thrown away a five gallon bucket.
You have driven off the road while looking at a neighbour’s crop.
You have used a front end loader as scaffolding for roof repairs.
You wave at every vehicle whether you know the driver or not.
You refer to farms by who owned them 50 years ago.
You give directions to your farm by using land marks and not road names.
You have animals using buildings more expensive than your house.
You have used the same knife to mark calves and peel apples.
You have used fencing wire to attach a license plate.
Your family instantly becomes silent when the weather comes on the news.
You listen to the ‘Country Hour’ every day at noon.
You have enough caps to match every shirt you own; but you only wear one.
Families, weddings and social events are planned around seeding, spraying, harvest, shearing, calving and lambing.
You wear specific hats to clearing sales, livestock auctions and CFA meetings.
You convince your wife that an overnight trip to Adelaide or Melbourne for machinery parts is a holiday.
You have had to wash off in the back yard with a hose before your wife will let you in the house.
You can remember the fertiliser rate, herbicide rate and stocking rate on a farm you leased 10 years ago, and all the wool and lamb prices for the last 15 years, but you can’t recall your wife’s birthday.