What is your idea about farming? Do you like to be a farmer? Is it interesting for you?thanks alot!?

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What is your idea about farming? Do you like to be a farmer? Is it interesting for you?thanks alot!?

Answer 1

I like to eat so I like Farmers. :)

My hubby grew up on a rice farm.  His brother farms and sales John Deer equipment.  He is the number one salesman in our area.

Farming is a dangerous job though.  All that equipment is dangerous to use.

Answer 2

Farming is great!  I am only 14, but I want to farm so bad when I get older.  My dad farms, not very much, but farming has also been his passion since he was little.  He also is a machanic for a John Deere dealership.  I love showing cattle at the fair in the summer along with raking hay.  The bad thing is, is that farming is getting to be just the big-time operators pushing us small farmers out of the way (they are land hogs!)  Farming is my dream, and I hope I can farm full time some day!

Answer 3

farming is fun-you make lot of money in farming and same time get fresh air and fresh fruit/veg to eat.i use to be a farmer and i love it.

Answer 4

First question is are you interested in "subsistance farming" or do you want to have a reasonable lifestyle?

Subsistance farming means you milk your own cows, breed and feed your own pigs and chickens, etc. and raise enough cash crops to pay your taxes and other bills.

When things are going well it's a neat life.

When things aren't going well you go broke in a hurry.  A sick animal can cost a bunch of money to cure.  If it dies it can be expensive to replace and you have to do without in the meantime.

The Amish are subsistance farmers.

Notice they do without electricity (and the TV, radio, CD players, washing machines, hot water heaters, etc that use electricity) so they don't have to pay any bills.

Tractors need tires, fuel, oil and repairs.  That's expensive if you can't do it yourself.

Remember too that one bad day can ruin a crop.  I watched a hailstorm flatten a field of wheat.  We had worked for nine months on that crop and should have gotten 50 bushels per acre.  Instead the best thing we could do was burn it.

If we hadn't burned it we would have had to buy some expensive herbicide to kill the "volunteer" wheat that came up from the grain knocked out of the heads by the storm.

I could go on about the days working in 90+ degree heat and 20 degree cold because you have to take care of the crops.

During the summers I worked from 8am to 9 or 10 pm., sometimes longer, six days a week.  The only times I saw my buddies was Sunday morning at church.  Didn't have time or energy for a girlfriend.

Often I had to take care of irrigation wells Sunday morning before church and again in the evening.  I might get a nap in between.

But yes, I would go back to farming if I had at least a million dollars.  I'm 58 and that would be enough money to keep me going until my 70's, the age my dad and grandad retired.

But my family quit farming -- we were operating 3000 acres in the Texas Panhandle -- because we were making too little to live on.

I'm a school teacher now.

Answer 5

I'm a small farmer. My husband and I live/work on a permaculture farm.

We raise meat goats, meat rabbits, alfalfa, and rapeseed for our own biofuel, as well as our big garden.

When I was a very little girl, I wanted to be two things. A farmer doing things the natural way, and a National Geographic reporter.

Well, I've had some pretty serrious health issues all of my life, so that left being a globe trotting National Geographic reporter out.

However living on a farm, in harmony with nature, wildlife, the livestock, our crops, and the seasons was something I was able to attain, and I love every moment of it. Best of all, I was able to make National Geographic come to ME!

Since I sell meat goats, I sell only to ethnic customers. Your "average white American" simply does not eat goat, so they are not my customers. Instead my customers are from all over the world.

I live in Idaho, high mountain desert, in the very heart of potato country. I've had people from Jamaica, Trinidad, Korea, China, Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, Germany, Yemen, almost all central African nations, Nepal & a few other countries coming directly to my farm, to butcher goats and rabbits here. They bring their religion, native dress, and traditions right here to my farm.

I am so very fortunate to live in a state where it is legal for people to do on-farm slaughtering of the animals they purchase.

I have met the most amazing people...people I would never in a million years be able to meet.

Most people are lucky if they get to take one vacation in their lifetime to an exotic location and meet the native people and enjoy their customs and culture.

I have this overwhelming amount of customs, culture, ethnic people, and religions coming to my farm!

I bet you never in a million years expected to see an answer like mine!

So besides our commitment to being as self sufficient as possible, and our ongoing commitment to living as earth friendly a lifestyle as possible, that this lifestyle allows us, we are blessed to be meeting wonderful people from all over the world!

On top of all of that....holding a newborn baby goat...well there's just about no more charming and adorable newborn creature on the face of the earth. Heartwarming to cuddle a newborn baby goat!

~Garnet

Homesteading/Farming over 20 years

Answer 6

I would love to farm someday, which I'm planning to get into farming. I always went out to the country and I love the smell of varies farms, from cattle to grain solos. also I'm thinking about raising cattle and horses.

Answer 7

Farming is not a job or an occupation, it's a way of life.  You have to like it or you won't be farming for long.  The rewards of farming are being able to be your own boss, working out of doors, being a part of nature, and raising your family in a wholesome atmosphere. The work is hard and the hours are long and usually the pay is less than you could make on a job in town.  If you love it you wouldn't even think of doing anything else.

Answer 8

I always liked farming. I worked on farms when I was young.

Wheat & hay, never any corn except for harvesting.

Its a good life but hard work.

I wish I would have stayed with it.

Answer 9

Well, from what I see, it is one of the only hopes in surviving through the next 200 years. Let's hope mother nature is kind to us and the developer don't push us out. It is the only sustainable and reliable ways of living. Farming has sustain human kind for over 3000 years, it is only in the last 150years we have been going down hill. Why should I trust the life style people are living today? Farming will alway be the most reliable way of living. Like a Rock.

I work on a farm and I enjoy everyday of it. I find it rewarding working in harmony with nature.

Hope the best, gotta keep truckin'

Answer 10

Subsistence farming is a great way of life for those who enjoy such lifestyles.  Every day a challenge.

Answer 11

farming is a super good idea, right now even better over the higher prices, not only do you grow things but eat them as well and look at the money you save by not having to go to the gems to work out, weight lose for many it is a everyday job, really did love the farm life myself, pets you will have the bigger ones and feathers to, so yes i would say farming is the jobs and work of the future even closer then you think, they want to use corn for gas.

Answer 12

The term farming covers a wide spectrum of agricultural production work. At one end of this spectrum is the subsistence farmer, who farms a small area with limited resource inputs, and produces only enough food to meet the needs of his/her family. At the other end is commercial intensive agriculture, including industrial agriculture. Such farming involves large fields and/or numbers of animals, large resource inputs (pesticides, fertilizers, etc.), and a high level of mechanization. These operations generally attempt to maximize financial income from grain, produce, or livestock.

Traditionally, the goal of farming was to create a profit, and to produce an amount of cultivated material (i.e. corn, wheat, etc) so that the resulting harvest has more worth than the cost of planting such a harvest. The costs could include the acquisition of seeds as well as the time and energy required to tend to such a venture. The resulting product is often used to sustain those who farm as both a food to eat and a commodity to sell.

i dont want to be a farmer

but farming is interesting

Answer 13

It's a good way to work a lot , and not make a lot of money (usually) . That said ,  most farmers wouldn't want to do anything else .

Used to be a "grower" , i.e. , a farmer that grows ornamentals, such as flowering  plants and cut flowers.  (NO, not THAT. Everybody always asks . ;D)

Answer 14

Growing up in a farming community I can say that it's lots of hard work, long nights, early mornings, and your income is never set in stone.  Most people I know wouldn't trade it for the world. It's in their blood.

Answer 15

sounds rather dull to me

Answer 16

My DH and I are dairy farmers in New Zealand, so it may be a little different to farming where you are because it is pastoral based here.  If you want to succeed as a farmer, you have to be passionate and totally committed.  It is your life.  It is not an easy job, it is hard - the hours are long, it is physical, and hard to get away from for holidays etc.  But in saying that there are some upsides to it.

There are so many different types of farming - you really need to work on a few different farms to see what you are passionate about.

You will need to obtain a huge amount of knowledge - farming is a science.

Answer 17

I grew up on a dairy farm, and i plan on starting a dairy of my own.  I think it is very interesting.  Farming has become a science...computers, technology, etc. have changed the way that farming once was.  

I have a Masters degree, and I LOVE farming.  I quit my office job so I can work the land.  I think there is nothing more rewarding than working with your hands and seeing something grow.

Answer 18

I love farming!Its a whole way of life, and i could never change it. I even come from somerset(which if you live in Britain you'll be familiar with the county!) so i have a proper farmers accent! Im only 17 and I know that i will always be into it. I wanna do o other things too but farmings for me:DHope i marry  a farmer too.

Answer 19

Farming in my country(Philippines) is rather stressfull. Labor is cheap but unreliable.  We get zero subsidies from our government yet we are supposed to remain price competitive with agricultural imports from countries where farming is subsidized. I really don't like it but I inherited farmland here so that's what I'm doing right now. If I had the choice, I'd do something else but I can't sell the farmland because of the "land reform thing" imposed by the government here. I can't even loan the land to any bank. (banks here don't accept farmlands as colateral.