Brian Warpup, a farmer from Warren, Ind., loves Mondays.
He is the fourth generation to work his family’s farm in rural Huntington County. Warpup and his wife, Nicole, have raised a son and two daughters on the farm. He is a board member of the Indiana Soybean Alliance (ISA), the state’s soybean checkoff program, and for the past year he has served as the chair of ISA’s Membership and Policy Committee. But as much as anything, Warpup enjoys working his fields and the process of producing a crop.
Sometimes, that can irritate his family.
“This was a few years ago as we were returning from a family vacation in Florida. We landed at the airport in Indianapolis, and we were starting to drive home,” said Warpup, setting the scene. “My wife is a schoolteacher, and she had to go back to work on Monday, and the kids had to go back to school. They were just dreading it. But I’m sitting there kind of smiling, and my wife says, ‘You’re the only person I know excited to get back to work on Monday morning.’ What can I say? Monday mornings are my joy! I know that kind of sounds strange, but when you love what you’re doing, it’s not work.”…