Farm dogs

They're a mainstay of farms around the world, sometimes harder workers than their human counterparts. Here's a collection of farm dogs -- some working hard and some not -- from Farmersforthefuture.com members.

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Here's Eric Blaine's dog Lucy, ready to go at a moment's notice on Blaine's Saint Charles, Michigan, farm.

Danielle Hammer's dog Shiraz is out scouting this field on Hammer's family farm near River Falls, Wisconsin.

But, it's not all fieldwork for Bryant Roberson's "Watch Dog," here "taking a timeout" on his farm near Tyner, North Carolina.

Farmersforthefuture.com member A. King stops on his Klamath Falls, Oregon, farm to take a photo with his dog Cooter, though it looks like Cooter's a little on the camera-shy side.

Here's "Lucky the truckin' dog" on network member Andrew Akin's farm near Seymour, Indiana.

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Not all farm dogs are hard workers all the time, though. "Sleeping on the job...for shame!" says Will Frey of his "Corn Dog" on his farm near Orovada, Nevada.

Here, "Rusty" keeps an eye on things at Farmersforthefuture.com member Tom Paulsen's farm near Quinn, South Dakota.

But, it's not all work for "Zeke," who's catching a quick pick-up game of basketball with Farmersforthefuture.com member Adam on their Clear Lake, Minnesota, farm.

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"Even as a puppy this Great Pyrenees gave her all to her job of guarding the alpacas," says Alabama farmer and network member Katy Spears of her farm dog Scarlett.

Here's a real hard worker. "We have a rotational grazing system and I could not get the job done without a quiet easy working dog," Virginia Nancy Dove says of Rob, her family's "main working dog" on their Appleton City, Missouri, farm.

The buck really stops with this working dog on Farmersforthefuture.com member Randi's Saskatchewan, Canada, ranch. "Watching the dog. No one touches the bale 'til it's rolled out," she says of the cattle.

Isle, Minnesota, farmer Kari Hollman's "cow dog" Breeze may like to be out on the farm, but she's "more into motors than running around," Hollman says.

This pup may not be the most helpful working dog on the farm yet, but don't count her out from being a big part of Greg Risenmay's farm near Idaho Falls, Idaho.

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