Agriculture is a tough field to enter. Farming is no ordinary profession, nor is it cheap. With farming, comes many risks – some even life threatening. As with any other profession, equipment is needed to perform the job effectively. In this field, the equipment is very costly. The prices of the equipment, chemicals, and seed are increasing whereas the prices of the crop are steady decreasing. How are farmers supposed to make a substantial income when the prices are overwhelming? Can the government not allow a set income for farmers each year, in addition to their profit?
Twenty years ago when prices equaled each other. A farmer would purchase seed that was harvested from the year before, formerly known as brown bag seed. This seed usually ran for five dollars a bag. There are now ways of technology that help make a more productive crop. This makes the prices increase. For instance, there are now round-up ready seed. This seed has extra technology put into it. This reduces the price of some chemicals, but not much. After the seed is purchased, is only the beginning of the process to buy the other materials. Next comes the machinery.
Today an average cotton picker sells for three hundred thousand dollars. The average farmer will yield a crop that will make him about thirty-five thousand dollars a year, not including the extra intense labor that he may use on the equipment itself. Chemicals can be quite costly as well, ranging from hundreds to thousands of dollars. With these chemicals, you need the proper equipment to distribute the chemicals effectively. Many dangers are faced when releasing the chemicals, for example, the hours used up on the equipment will make your machinery more susceptible to breakdowns.
The chemical could also damage your crop if not used correctly. This damage to the crops causes the farmers average yearly income to decrease intensely. As you can see, farming is not a job one can do alone. Great help is needed to make the maximum yield possible. The money to pay for these helpers comes from the farmers own personal checkbook. The hired hands have a promised amount of money per hour in which they will receive, whereas the farmers do not. Farmers have no specific amount of money that they are going to receive each year.
This unreliability upon income causes financial problems when a family is involved. Every year when a farmer begins to plant his crops he is taking a big gamble on whether or not he is going to have a successful year. The success depends mainly upon the economy. The economy affects the farmers because of the low prices. These prices do not even out with the prices of the materials needed. The economy needs to find a way to balance the prices of the materials as well as the price of the crop produced at harvest.
If so much money is being produced for the making and selling of this needed equipment and chemicals, then why shouldnt the laborers who actually put the time and effort into this ever-needed necessity of life receive a better amount of compensation for their effort? Without the useful hand of farmers that have the sufficient smarts of the machinery and the chemicals, the crops produced would be very rare among our economy. The people of the world would struggle to survive. Farmers should receive a substantial reward for their hard work.
Athletes have no problem receiving recognition, simply by entertaining the world in a very non-strenuous act. Farmers receive nothing for putting all their time and effort into an occupation that is desperately needed to survive. Farming is one of the most enduring jobs in the world. Farmers go into debt each year as they begin a new farm year. Special funds should be set aside so that farmers can turn to it when they are in need. It seems as if each year a new loan is taken out, only to continue to dig deeper in debt. Farmers need some form of a promised paycheck each year just to get by in a world where prices are constantly increasing.
Some people fail to realize that without farmers, we would not be able to survive. How else would we receive our crops? If money cant be set aside for the farmers, then there needs to be some form of adjustment in the prices of crops. How is a farmer supposed to support a family when he is getting such small wages for his hard-earned crops? As a farmers daughter, I have strong belief in this argument. The government needs to come up with ways to balance out the prices of the economy. The thought is ridiculous of how farmers dig deeper and deeper into debt each year only hoping to break even.
As years progress, some farmers have had to sell out because the prices were ridiculous and they couldnt find a way to get out of debt. How fair is that when the farmers put all their time and effort into something they are hardly receiving any recognition for. Words / Pages : 909 / 24 Argumentative Farmers: An Argument for Farmers Needing Help in Their Field of Business Agriculture is a tough field to enter. Farming is no ordinary profession, nor is it cheap. With farming, comes many risks – some even life threatening. As with any other profession, equipment is needed to perform the job effectively.
In this field, the equipment is very costly. The prices of the equipment, chemicals, and seed are increasing whereas the prices of the crop are steady decreasing. How are farmers supposed to make a substantial income when the prices are overwhelming? Can the government not allow a set income for farmers each year, in addition to their profit? Twenty years ago when prices equaled each other. A farmer would purchase seed that was harvested from the year before, formerly known as brown bag seed. This seed usually ran for five dollars a bag. There are now ways of technology that help make a more productive crop.
This makes the prices increase. For instance, there are now round-up ready seed. This seed has extra technology put into it. This reduces the price of some chemicals, but not much. After the seed is purchased, is only the beginning of the process to buy the other materials. Next comes the machinery. Today an average cotton picker sells for three hundred thousand dollars. The average farmer will yield a crop that will make him about thirty-five thousand dollars a year, not including the extra intense labor that he may use on the equipment itself.
Chemicals can be quite costly as well, ranging from hundreds to thousands of dollars. With these chemicals, you need the proper equipment to distribute the chemicals effectively. Many dangers are faced when releasing the chemicals, for example, the hours used up on the equipment will make your machinery more susceptible to breakdowns. The chemical could also damage your crop if not used correctly. This damage to the crops causes the farmers average yearly income to decrease intensely. As you can see, farming is not a job one can do alone.
Great help is needed to make the maximum yield possible. The money to pay for these helpers comes from the farmers own personal checkbook. The hired hands have a promised amount of money per hour in which they will receive, whereas the farmers do not. Farmers have no specific amount of money that they are going to receive each year. This unreliability upon income causes financial problems when a family is involved. Every year when a farmer begins to plant his crops he is taking a big gamble on whether or not he is going to have a successful year.
The success depends mainly upon the economy. The economy affects the farmers because of the low prices. These prices do not even out with the prices of the materials needed. The economy needs to find a way to balance the prices of the materials as well as the price of the crop produced at harvest. If so much money is being produced for the making and selling of this needed equipment and chemicals, then why shouldnt the laborers who actually put the time and effort into this ever-needed necessity of life receive a better amount of compensation for their effort?
Without the useful hand of farmers that have the sufficient smarts of the machinery and the chemicals, the crops produced would be very rare among our economy. The people of the world would struggle to survive. Farmers should receive a substantial reward for their hard work. Athletes have no problem receiving recognition, simply by entertaining the world in a very non-strenuous act. Farmers receive nothing for putting all their time and effort into an occupation that is desperately needed to survive. Farming is one of the most enduring jobs in the world.
Farmers go into debt each year as they begin a new farm year. Special funds should be set aside so that farmers can turn to it when they are in need. It seems as if each year a new loan is taken out, only to continue to dig deeper in debt. Farmers need some form of a promised paycheck each year just to get by in a world where prices are constantly increasing. Some people fail to realize that without farmers, we would not be able to survive. How else would we receive our crops? If money cant be set aside for the farmers, then there needs to be some form of adjustment in the prices of crops.
How is a farmer supposed to support a family when he is getting such small wages for his hard-earned crops? As a farmers daughter, I have strong belief in this argument. The government needs to come up with ways to balance out the prices of the economy. The thought is ridiculous of how farmers dig deeper and deeper into debt each year only hoping to break even. As years progress, some farmers have had to sell out because the prices were ridiculous and they couldnt find a way to get out of debt. How fair is that when the farmers put all their time and effort into something they are hardly receiving any recognition for.