I grew up on a small farm. We raised crops. We had livestock. I had some chickens and sold some eggs when I was in high school. The eggs I sold paid for the food the chickens ate. But it wasn't going to ever turn into a very profitable business. It would have taken a lot more chickens and eggs to pay for housing for the chickens.
Fast forward a bit. For years I've been reading about the disconnect between consumers and farmers. Usually written by someone in the farming community.
They've brought up good points. Many people being 2 or more generations removed from the farm. They've never been on a farm. They have an idealized concept of what farms are like.
I could accept that. I lived in town. I'd let people like that. They lived in town, they left to travel to bigger towns. It was easy for me to understand how people could be that disconnected.
Most of the blogs that I've seen that farmers do spend most of their time defending their practices or defending farming.
"If you have questions about food, ask a farmer"
This implies that farmers are the experts on production. Yet these same farmers will knock/denounce/ridicule/make light of studies or surveys published by experts.
What I would like to see is information.
If you have access to a farms records from the past, I'd like to make a request. I would like to see 4 numbers. The number of gallons of fuel used in the past and the number of acres farmed then. The number of gallons of fuel used now and three the nof access farmed with that fuel.
This is an unscientific survey. Thanks for Reading. Please respond.
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