Challenge. Think farming is simple/easy? Answer all the questions below
1.) What crops are you gonna grow this year?
2.) Look at the market, you think that price gonna be the same in a few months?
3.) Where are you planting each crop?
4.) Seeding time, can you work from 9:00am to 11:00pm in order to get done in the little time you have?
5.) Your seeder broke half-way through, what are you gonna do? You donāt have the money to buy the new fancy ones.
6.) Where you gonna get a sprayer?
7.) Can you spray the crops at the exact right time so that bugs canāt eat it all?
8.) It rained a lot last night, think you can work in that soil with the big equipment? Iāll give you a freebie, you canāt.
9.) Your crop is ready to harvest, but their predicting a hail storm, did you decide which fields to cover? Hint: you canāt cover them all, look at the price
10.) One of your fields is completely ruined by the hail storm, insurance gonna cover all the money you put into the ground? Another freebie, no.
11.) Youāre going to harvest all the other crop now, how do you know when itās ready?
12.) Can you sit through another session of long hours to get the crop in before the price changes?
13.) How many bins should you have to hold each crop when youāre done?
14.) Whoās gonna drive the truck to move full loads while you drive the combine?
15.) Say itās real dry on another area of land, that combineās been running for a few hours, what do you do if something catches fire?
16.) Youāre finally done harvesting all the crops, did you store it all?
17.) Who are you selling your crop to?
18.) Are you getting enough bang for your work? You lost a lot of money on that totaled field remember.
19.) Think you now have a lot of free cash now? Iāll answer for you, no, that money has to go back into the farm.
Think youāre done? No, not by a long shot hun.
20.) Itās winter now, did you get all your expensive equipment where the snow and freezing water canāt ruin it?
21.) Flash forward, time to clean your equipment so itās ready for this times harvest, but some animal decided to make that machine itās home over winter. Thereās no coverage for that, how are you gonna fix what the animal ruined?
Iāll give you slack and skip winter, but now I add the other lingering questions
22.) Did you remember to clean out everything before it was put away for winter?
23.) How are you going to make sure your soil stays good? Plants can take out those important minerals other plants need.
24.) Did I mention youāre still paying taxes for your home? Water, electricity, ect. you have the money?
25.) Oh, youāre fields that you work so hard on? They arenāt close to each other at all, thereās miles between some of them, how do you move all the equipment to different fields?
26.) Guess what, itās time to pick what youāre going to plant again. Take the profit of last year, where do you put it?
You get my point yet? Farming takes a lot, itās not mindless, itās not all easy work.
And thinking everything is all safe and sound for farmers. Look up to my uncle Dale, heavy equipment hit him in the head at 14 and he was gone in a snap. Rest in peace.
My point is, respect farmers. Be nice to them, if you own a company work with them donāt just do what you want, talk to them ācause sitting so long alone can take a lot out of you. It takes strength to make it in the farm world, you should hug them and always let them know theyāre loved and appreciated.
Last note: farming isnāt all hell though. You should see some of the views they get.
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