This article helps to understand the farmer's life, how and where they work. It also provides the danger of being farmer and information of farmer's future like using technologies and retiring.
Farming is a way of life. To be a farmer means growing plants or livestock to feed the world, for botanical or fuel.
Farming means organizing human resources, planting, harvesting, hoeing, welcome tourist, fixing tractors, facing difficult, taking financial meteorological or legislative decisions. They also sell and delivery crops.
First they wake up early Receive employees Plan the tasks Do the part of tasks themselves Feed plants and livestock Sow, harvest, store, sell, cook by transforming their crops Ride tractors or other equipment Maintain equipment Do administration tasks like counting, at the end of the day Command seeds, pesticides, Sell and deliver crops
Farmers work in different places: Botanic park, orchard, fields, greenhouses, sheepfold, cowshed, Government offices. But in a country state like Quebec, where the heather is very rude, the closed places are better to product all year like greenhouses, closed sheepfold, closed cowshed...
First it would be a passion unless you leave in a farmer family. Then, if I were you, I would learn it in an Agriculture College located where you want to work. You can keep going for certification or more with a baccalaureate. It depends on you.
It depends on your choice: growing plants, livestock, employee, functionary. But the profitability of an agronomic business is also influenced by your meteorological and legislative's state, the prices of products, ... Farmers can't hold all these facts.
Farming needs physical and mental capacities, it's challenging. In addition, they must be a manager, a counter, and a seller sometimes. But the most important training is how preserve his soil, the environment, the nature.
Farmers live every time with danger like managing livestock, burn out, using pesticide, using equipment like tractors, harrow, spreader. Sometimes farmers survive or not to fire, drought, inundation.
Farming uses many kinds of technologies and the research is going through synthetic food like synthetic meat but health standard restrain it at the moment.
Farm employees retire early because of some disease but employers keep working instead of having someone to substitute perhaps his son.
Farming must be a passion, but we must have a good formation handling all the tasks to do and making it profitable. Because of international business farming, it becomes a problem source. If you love it, nothing is more important to see a seed growing and giving us a fruit or more cereals. If we respect the nature, we can live with it until retired.
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