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hitney arson
Tell us a little about yourself.
I grew up in an amazing family full of athletes. My parents both played college ball- baseball and volleyball. And we grew up on all things ball. Softball, Basketball Volleyball and when my brother was born football. My summers were spent in the weight room and in gyms all across kansas and surrounding states. I was taught hard work, resilience, determination and dedication at an early age. My parents not only spent countless hours but a lot of money to help is travel and play on AAU and Club teams in others states to get recognition for our college careers. To say basketball taught me so much about life may sound silly to some. But unless you are an athlete and are taught the same morals and life lessons I was you may not. It shaped me for the future, it paid for my schooling, it gave me some of the best friends and memories i could have ever asked for. My childhood was anything short of amazing and i can only thank my two amazing hard working parents for that. I got something many kids did not have the opportunity to have and that was at LEAST one parent at every single sporting event at home or away. And to top that off grandparents that were alwats in the stands supporting us. My mom or my dad were always there cheering for me (and in later years my siblings), or in my dads case whistling. We laugh now but he had the most attention grabbing whistle, and he only used it when we need an adjustment of some kind on the court. Whether that be our crappy attitudes, a simple clap to get our butts in gear and hustle harder or a head nod that yes you are rocking it girl. After highschool I got an offer to play Juco basketball at a college near home. I was dating my husband Bart at the time and definitely didnt want to stray too far from where he was living. I found in college i felt lost in the school aspect and excelled in my sports like i was determined to do. I just could not pin down what i wanted to do with my lilfe and felt like spending all this money was so hard to do when i could not find it in my soul to pick a major. I started in nursing. And after completeing my CNA courese and working in a long term care facilitu for a summer, i quickly realized nurses and cnas are gods gift to earth and i was simply not cut out for it. So here i was with all my pre reqs done to start the nursing program and switched again. This time I thought vet tech would be my absolute path, but you cannot do that program and play sports. Which was a downfall as a I was doing so well in basketball that I wasnt ready to hang up my shoes. So i continued forward with achieving my associates with no major. I graduated and that was all that matters, especially considering that college algebra was maybe the cloeset i have ever been to death haha. I moved home after turning down some prestigous offers to go play higher level basketball to start my life with Bart. I landed a great job as an assitant to an optometrist. I worked there for four years, while bart worked for a local farmer. We were married in those four years and i was expecting our first son. Barts passion has always been farming and he loved his job as a hired man. But his boss being the amazing man he was knew bart was
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cut out for more and could do more with his life. So he pushed him to buy a ground spray rig and start his own business. Thats when Larson Ag came to life. We moved to his hometown about an hours south of where we currently lived. I had a fresh baby, was a stay at home mom since the move and drive to work didnt make financial sense, and i missed my family so much. Anyone that is a farm wife can probably agree the hours are insane. But try coming from the city like me; where we ate supper together every night, we had weekends together traveling or at home, i saw my parents everyday sometimes more than twice and I lived in a short driving distance to a walmart and so much more. Now I was plopped in the middle of nowhere (or so i thought) with no friends, none of my family and smacked into farm life all at once. I struggled and would be lying if i said i didnt. For about a year and a half i had to adjust, learn and grow as a farm wife and mother. The hardest part for me was i knew nothing about farming. We never had more than a dog when i grew up, i couldn’t even back up a trailer or drive a stick. But i wanted to learn, i was eager to live in my husbands passion and dream and not outside of it. We then took on some custom farming and rented farm ground and life got a lot busier. I got alot more brave and asked all
the questions and wanted to learn and learn some more. Thank the good Lord that my husband didnt give me much of an option, this was our life together and i was apart of it. He has taught me
