A Day Without Farming?

Question

A Day Without Farming?

This is for Geography. I have to hand in one page talking about what a day without farming would be like.

Any ideas?

Does anyone feel like writting a bit?

Any suggestions would be very appriciated.

Thanks in advance!

(Sorry, I just have several test that I must study for, and I really have no time to write this. Thanks to anyone who helps out!)

Answer 1

a day without farming is disaster! without farms you have no food, without food you don't have people, or last i heard people had to eat food to survive. you need to tell your teacher in the essay that a day without farming could eventually turn into no farming because people are leaving farms, either from bankruptcy, lack of pay, and contractors looking to buy land for more developement. the outcome is horrific

Answer 2

A day without farming is just a day off and most farmers would not do that. Bear with me a minute on this though. Take any seed, or better yet take any seedling and put it under a microscope. Look at the apical meristem, the uppermost young growing point of a plant. You will be amazed. What you are seeing is the whole plant that could have been, compact and in miniture. If a plant gets everything it needs from the first sprout to the final harvest that little growing point has the capacity, and you can see this, of being the perfect plant at it's maturity. The reality is that all plants never reach that stage of perfection. Every little thing will cause the meristematic region the tiniest amount of damage and though it may still grow to be a great plant, it never will be at the point of perfection. Every little bit of drying from the smallest lack of moisture for even a single day, every minute deficiency in the least of the nutrients, every bug bite or virus, bacteria or fungi, every underground rock that blocks a root's passage, total overload of cloudy days, rain damaging a leaf, all of it takes an almost invisible toll. Yes you will still have a perfectly great crop and harvest, but all those tens of thousands of plants in the field will not be their perfect form as was in the seed and sprout. The world and nature is not perfect and a plant like any other life will suffer all the little ills and a perfect plant has never been grown in all the history of life on earth. They have the capacity and that is what allows them to survive in the adversity. Now, if all the farmers stopped irrigation for a day, or weeding, or feeding, or any of the little things that they do to maximise their yields, those crops will have a small amount of stress. Barely noticable. A little wilt from lack of water will go away the first time the irrigation goes on, but that plant will have slipped down one almost invisible notch on the rungs of perfection. Add all those plants together and then all the farmers together and one would see that all those little grains of our grasses, all the slightly smaller leaf and root crops, all the hungry animals all starts to add up and that could be sizable in terms of a total. If it added up to a penny here and there, that constant trickle of pennies gets big, and that is the cost of food. Someone will be hungry. For a single plant it is an invisible thing but for all the crops and all the plants, it can be quite a lot. This is why we need to concern ourselves with our environmental impact. Same thing. The almost invisible loses to a plant all add up to huge loses in a time when we already have huge masses of hungry people. Statistically food costs less today than it ever has, though you would not think so at the market as your paycheck goes to fill a very few grocery bags, but mark my word it could be quite a bit worse, and will be.

Answer 3

Everyone making farming,

Farming in the fields,that is farming of crops.

Farming in the body it is the farming of next generations,

Farming in the water it is the crops of fishes.

Farming in the share market it is crops of the Money.

Answer 4

Well I'm from a dairy farm and most city people I know think that milk and meat and fruit and vegetables come from the supermarket, not from farms. And they have frequently been quoted as saying "d**n farmers, taking all of our water." So city people probably think that a day without farming would mean that they can shower for as long as they want and water their garden and wash their car because the drought and consequent water restrictions are apparently the fault of farmers

Also, in response to Bob B, dairy cows get sick when they go unmilked. They get an infection called mastitis

Answer 5

You don't want to know.....just one day of no farming would take away a lot of food, fibers, fuels, ect...life would end.

Answer 6

Since you do not want to schedule to do your own work, will you give us your grade...?   Since you have no time, just tell your teacher that you want to take a zero for this paper.  Why should others do your work...  you have a future with the government!

Answer 7

If all farmers, and all their employees accross the world took the same day off: crops would be fine, livestock would get hungry, and dairy cows would go unmilked.

Answer 8

try going a day w/o eating and you will have your answer