First-Class Farmers

I just finished typing up a lease for a new farmer we'll be working with next year. He's a really nice guy - the neighbor of the farmer who has been farming our land for the past couple decades. We've used this same lease with farmers for our family wheat farms for a long, long time. My favorite part is this:

"The Lessee agrees to perform all work necessary to carry out the terms of this lease and to farm said premises in a first-class farmer-like manner, planting the same crops in proper season, according to the standards maintained in the community..."

First-class farmer-like manner! It doesn't get any better than that. I'm keeping this clause in the lease until someone makes me change it. It reminds me of my grandpa, a first-class farmer himself. Here's to you, TR. We love you.