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A lifestyle choice
I grew up in a farming community. While I never personally lived on on a food producing farm (my family raised only horses), I did work for some time on the local dairy and swine farms and most of my friends were the sons and daughters of farmers. One lesson they taught me more than any other ....... farming is not a job, it is a lifestyle. These farmers, though living in one of the most economically stable areas of the world, are on call day and night, are at the mercy of climatic considerations they have minimal control over, and are losing perhaps their most precious resource at an alarming rate. What resource is that? The next generation.
At one time in my community, it was almost assured the a family owned farm would be taken over by the next generation and maintained, if not expanded, by them. This, however, is becoming less and less the case as the emphasis of our education system and society itself is squarely focused on newer, "high tech" careers. Many of these young individuals are taking with them lessons learned from a lifetime of experience that are invaluable to the success of the farm. They have completed an apprenticeship and are now walking away from the trade, never to be replaced.
In a world where food security is a genuine problem, how can we hope to be able to feed rising urban populations when the very farms that do so are disappearing? This, coupled with the use of farmlands for urban growth and industrial development could spell disaster and destabilize an area where food security for most is taken for granted, not to mention what the loss of food exports could do to world markets.
How do we solve this problem? Refocus our energies on realizing the fact that farmers are amazing people. They develop skills and knowledge in genetics, engineering, biology, chemistry, climatology and resource management. Add to this the physical nature of much of their work and you have a truly incredible worker. Let's make farmers the heroes they are and show the next generation of farmers that we need and appreciate them.
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