50 Best Country Songs About Farming
Best Country Music for Life on the Farm
There’s a rhythm to farm work that feels older than the land itself. Sunrise pulls you out of bed before the world is fully awake, and by the time most people pour their first coffee, you’ve already fed the animals and checked the fence line. It’s long days where the air smells like cut hay, the ground sticks to your boots, and the sky decides your schedule. The right song can slide into that space between tired muscles and stubborn pride, carrying the weight of work that never really ends.
It’s not all postcard sunsets and quiet fields. Some days the tractor won’t start, the weather turns mean, and you find yourself in the barn with the radio turned up to drown out the frustration. The voices in these tracks come from people who’ve stood in those same muddy boots, leaning into harmonies that cut through dust and diesel fumes. The same way pop, rock, country, and R&B songs can shape city stories, these farm tracks tell their own in cracked voices and steel-string echoes.
Then there are the moments that keep you going. The sound of cattle settling in for the night, the glow from a kitchen window across the yard, the low hum of a song that follows you out into the dark. They hang in the air like the last light over the fields. Here are the best country songs for farming life.
Top 10 Farming Songs
1. 'International Harvester'—Craig Morgan
2. 'Amarillo Sky'—Jason Aldean
3. 'Where the Green Grass Grows'—Tim McGraw
4. 'She Thinks My Tractor's Sexy'—Kenny Chesney
5. 'Rain Is a Good Thing'—Luke Bryan
6. 'Song of the South'—Alabama
7. 'Farmer's Daughter'—Rodney Atkins
8. 'American Farmer'—The Charlie Daniels Band
9. 'Heartland'—George Strait
10. 'Big Green Tractor'—Jason Aldean
Country Music About Farm Life #11—20
11. 'Where Corn Don't Grow'—Waylon Jennings
12. 'Friends With Tractors'—Rodney Atkins
13. 'The Dirt Road'—Sawyer Brown
14. 'John Deere Green'—Joe Diffie
15. 'Here's to the Farmer'—Luke Bryan
16. 'The Harvest'—Tyler Childers
17. 'High Cotton'—Alabama
18. 'Farmer's Blues'—Merle Haggard and Marty Stuart
19. 'Daddy Won't Sell the Farm'—Montgomery Gentry
20. 'Last of a Dying Breed'—Neal McCoy
Agricultural Themed Country Tunes #21—30
21. 'Thank God I'm a Country Boy'—John Denver
22. 'Farmer'—Lee Brice
23. 'Cowpoke'—Colter Wall
24. 'She Cranks My Tractor'—Dustin Lynch
25. 'A Man on a Tractor'—Rodney Atkins
26. 'John Deere Tractor'—The Judds
27. 'Dirt on My Boots'—Jon Pardi
28. 'Down on the Farm'—Tim McGraw
29. 'Farm Life'—Colt Ford featuring Justin Moore
30. 'The Boy Who Wouldn't Hoe Corn'—Alison Krauss & Union Station
Rural Lifestyle Country Tracks #31—40
31. 'The Tractor'—Mel McDaniel
32. 'Tractor'—Granger Smith
33. 'Scarecrow In The Garden'—Chris Stapleton
34. 'The Cattle Call'—Eddy Arnold
35. 'The Rooster And The Hen'—Emily Nenni
36. 'Factories, Farms & Amphetamines'—Myron Elkins
37. 'God's Country'—Blake Shelton
38. 'Corn Star'—Craig Morgan
39. 'Johnny Cash's Farmer's Almanac'—Johnny Cash
40. 'Let the Rain Come Down'—The Steel Woods
Country Songs About Fields and Crops #41—50
41. 'In A Field Somewhere'—Hailey Whitters
42. 'Stuck Behind a Tractor'—Tommy Atkins
43. 'American Muscle'—Canaan Smith
44. 'Round Here'—Florida Georgia Line
45. 'One Tractor Mind'—Ashley Ryan
46. 'Country Trash'—Johnny Cash
47. 'Corn'—Blake Shelton
48. 'Daddy's Farm'—Shooter Jennings
49. 'Dooley's Farm'—Molly Tuttle & Golden Highway featuring Billy Strings
50. 'Rain on the Scarecrow'—John Mellencamp
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