What are the disadvantages and advantages of farming life?

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What are the disadvantages and advantages of farming life?

Answer 1

Advantage- You are your own boss.

Disadvantage- You are working for the toughest boss you have ever had. You will get to work earlier, put in more hours and work later than any other boss would dare ask of you.

Advantage- You get to work outside in the fresh air, not cooped up in an office or factory.

Disadvantage- You work outside in the snow, ice, and freezing weather, also in the heat of 100 degree days. Often you will be covered in trash and dust from harvesting crops or baling hay.

Advantage- You grow your own food and you know exactly  what went into it. It is always fresh or preserved by you and tastes much better and is better for you than food that comes from the grocery store.

Disadvantage- Can't think of much disadvantage here except that maybe you have to do more work for the food than you would have to getting it from the store, but the better food and the money you save more than off sets the extra work.

Answer 2

I live on a 500-acre beef cattle farm that runs between 150-200 animals throughout the year.

I'm sixteen and I love farm life.  I love the beautiful countryside and fresh air.  I love to be able to hear the birds singing and not be drowned out by noisy trucks and city noises.  I love the cattle--beautiful animals.  One of my favorite things to do is to sit in the field with the cows and listen to them munch their grass.  (Sounds corny, but true!!)  I love to help with the baby calves.  I love, at the end of the day, to look back and see a job well done.

There are some disadvantages, though.  I live in a rural area, so I'm isolated from my friends.  Because of high gas prices, there's often things that I'd like to do with them in town, and I can't because we live so far away.  I love shopping (doesn't every teenager!) and I don't get to go very often because the nearest mall is over 25 miles away. 

But I wouldn't trade this for the world.

Answer 3

Advantages- Farming life is the closest thing to freedom you can get. I mean you are your own boss, you do what you want when you want. You get to experience things, other people would never get to in their entire lifetime. And gain new skills, i mean with farming you learn something new everyday (Whether it be a simplier way of doing something or herd improvement). You get to live off the land...it always offers new thrills and fun.

Disadvantages- A farming life can also cause much turmoil and grief for people. I mean with the drought, it pushes you to the edge, and tests you at every new corner. And then if you come into financial difficulties, it just makes matters worse, your so determine to make money, you spend that little to much and next thing you know you've got a massive debt. But also some farmers end up living alone, unable to find a partner due to the isolation that comes with farming.

Answer 4

advantage.. no neighbours

disadvantage.. no neighbours

Answer 5

I am a farmer. I own and work a small organic farm in Northern California. I love my life and would not choose another life style. The reason I choose this style of life has nothing to do with money, which is often in short supply. I choose this life because it suits me, because it enriches my life and feeds my spirit, so to speak.

The work is constant, day in and day out. There are no weekends off. No paid vacations. No bonuses.

Nature is challenging, that makes the work interesting. Nature is a great teacher. To farm is to learn about one's self, to begin to see how one's own life fits into the grand scheem of things.

The real rewards of farming are like this: Seeing a steaming new born calf, all shakey legged, latching onto it's mother's teat in the wee hours of a frosty morning. You look at it with an educated eye and see that your breeding program is working, you know that this bull calf will be a "keeper".

Or saving seed year after year, and seeing real improvements in your strain of winter squashes; they keep longer, produce more pounds of squash and are tastier than the ones you started with.

Or having people come by and buy milk from you and tell you: "This is the best milk I ever tasted, like ice-cream without all the sugar."

There are difficult times that nature deals you, a late frost nips your entire apple crop. And great times that nature deals you, a warm winter and early spring sets a bumper apple crop, all the neighbors pitch in and help put up jars and jars of apple sauce.

A farmer learns how to move in harmony with nature, good times and bad. Farmers gravitate toward one another, help one another.

Working together toward the common goal of being a self sufficient community, binds the  people of a community together for the common good. I highly recomend the life style, having lived it for years.

Answer 6

the agribusiness is expensive and there is limited land to buy. there is also very little government support within the business. you are your own boss, but you can not name your own prices (except maybe in produce). i can see farming becoming more popular in the future if people realize that overcrowding will actually cause a food shortage. I want to get into agriculture myself.

Answer 7

you will probably have to work harder than you ever have in your entire life for not very much pay (unless you have worked on a farm already!!!!!)

Answer 8

Disadvantage is you can never get rich

Advantage is you can; if you use your brains

Answer 9

You have little or no control over the prices you get for your crops and when you have lots of crops, probably so does everyone else, so prices are down.   You can be wiped out or nearly so if prices are low and you were hoping for as much as possible, disease or bugs can take out much of what you might have sold.

  The advantages are that you are there, close to the earth and close to your kids and wife/husband with ability to adjust schedule somewhat to be with them for events.   However, especially if you keep dairy or other animals, you may never be able to take a couple of days off.

Answer 10

Advantage:

You can satisfy your own needs

You can make profit

You can help in the environment by planting trees

disadvantage:

high prices of fertilizers

mismanage of time

mismanagement

Answer 11

Disadvantages,loss of crops or animals,bad weather.cost of fuel. Price of farmland if a farmer wants to expand.Rural development and clash of cultures.Goverment involvement.Advantages you see the result of your labor. It's hard work but work a person loves.You make your own decisions and take the good with the bad.Most farmer's are realist,resourceful,and independent. This is the average family farm.It's a way of life.

Answer 12

You will never get rich but you'll have good mental health.