So God Made A Farmer By Paul Harvey

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Farming Issue “I need somebody who can shape an ax handle from a persimmon sprout, shoe a horse with a hunk of car tire, who can make harness out of haywire, feed sacks and shoe scraps. And who, planting time and harvest season, will finish his forty-hour week by Tuesday noon, then, pain'n from 'tractor back,' put in another seventy-two hours." So God made a farmer (The).” This is a speech given by Paul Harvey and he talks about the life of a farmer and how it is hard but yet how important it is. Farming is one of the most important jobs and hardest jobs in the world today. The reason it is said to be the hardest is because of the time and money put into this job. There is a bunch of labor farmers have to do and a lot of time in the fields …show more content…

The farming field will soon be failing to produce enough food to meet the needs of people because of the worlds growing population; therefore, it is important that actions need to be taken to solve the problem because farmers produce a lot of the food for the world that …show more content…

“With today’s successful commercial agriculture, one U.S. farmer produces enough food to feed 155 people and is the leading producer of more than 50 foods of importance to diets throughout the world (Farming).” Just from doing the math if one farmer can feed 155 people by 2050 when the population is predicted to be 9.3 billion it would take 60 million farmers to feed everyone. David Pimentell says the solution for farmers to produce more food would be to have more farm land and put in wells and irrigation sprinklers. The most important nutrient to plants, animals, and humans is water. So by adding wells and irrigation sprinklers to fields and replacing dry land fields farmers can produce more food the only down fall would be the cost and the use of water. According to Mike Lundeen on neded.org corn yield in 2007 for dry land was 125 bushels per acre, while irrigated was 181 bushels per acre. It all depends on how wet the year is for both dry land and irrigated but irrigated always has a better yield but costs more. To have a better yield on a irrigated field farmers could also use fertilizer which is basically a steroid for the plant which enhances the outcome of the plant. Many farmers use fertilizer but the ones that spend more money and use a lot of it turn out getting better yields than the farmers that do not use as much. There is almost always a solution to a problem and farmers usually find one for the problem

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