Agriculture, Food and Natural Ressources

        Hello my name is Jack Newman; I'm currently 25 years old. Since my early childhood I've dreamt about owning my own farm and running it. As a child, my parents would send me to my grandparent’s farm every summer. I became a custom to taking care of the cows after my grandmother taught me everything in that area. Furthermore, I learned to work with heavy machinery and cultivating the land. Farming became one of my greatest passions in life and when my grandfather finally passed down the ownership of his farm down to me I was jumping for joy.

 

        Being a farmer holds many responsibilities and requires a lot of time. As an owner, my main objective is to maintain a good production. But production has a lot of requirements for it to be successful. First of all, I have to own a huge amount of land that is required to produce crops (plant, cultivate, harvest). When the harvest season reaches its peak I have to be ready to work longer hours than usual and in any kind of weather even though it’s storming outside. Second, the livestock that I own must be taken care of (fed, cleaning their stalls, etc...). This is a twenty-four hour, seven days a week engagement. Third, I need machinery to work on my farm since it makes my  job easier. My workers who operate these machines take in mind the dangers that may follow when the machine is in use.

        When production is ready, my agricultural products (type of food, dairy products, etc…) are sold to the market. As owner I have to prepare the cost and write the records down. But running a farm is nearly impossible without the help of my workers. They are the reason why my farm is still running today. To hire someone I'm responsible to train them or give the task to an experienced worker. I supervise everything going on, on my farm making sure everything goes well.

        Many people have asked me what my average salary of being a farmer is. The answer to this varies. If you own a very small farm that isn't very successful you may earn around 50K or less. But if your farm is very successful and really big, the salary could be really high compared to other jobs.

        Working on a farm requires no type of experience but if you want to be an owner like me, you have to go to college in the agricultural department for a couple of years,  in order to learn better techniques of running a farm and growing crops. You have to be logic smart, body smart, self smart and nature smart to be a farmer since they have to be independant just like me.