Friday, August 9, 2013

Agriculture In The Current World

By George Dodson


Farming has been playing an important role in our lives ever since. This subject is probably among the leading fields of industry today. As farming being said as an important field of industry, a farmer is consequently considered important as well. The farmer is decked out in overalls and a straw hat and has a pitchfork in one hand.

Farms have always played a vital role in our lives as it becomes the key source of nutrition for all people. Having to grow their own crops as well to tend to animals for their meat, coat and milk is something that many people today can easily accomplish. As a farmer, he or she will need to wake up early and do various chores in the farm in order to have a living.

Farming is changed over the years as technology has entered the picture. Farmers today no longer have to bother themselves with plowing the fields through the use of cows or yokes. Farms today makes use of high tech equipment and machines to plow as well as to water their crops. Furthermore, modern genetics also allows crops and plants in farms to stay fresh longer and even stay vibrant despite the weather condition or season. The modern farmer can now also store food and other of his crops in large containers and storages such as the silo where temperature is advantageous for the longer life of the crops. Through these, more food are being disbursed in the market for consumption.

Sprinkler cans were usually used back then to water plants and crops in a farm. Today, a farmer can easily spread water on all corners of the field or farm in a lesser time through advanced water systems, irrigations and watering machineries. Thus farmers are able to do other chores and no longer have to spend hours and hours in just one single chore.

The invention of the yoke and the cow-driven plow has been the best invention yet with regard to farming. The sturdy animals provided the power and in some cases the manure to fertilize crops. However, technology changed all that. Huge modern machinery that has air-conditioned cabs, satellite radio, and even computers, dot the landscape of farms these days. These modern marvels can plow and harvest large areas of the modern farm in much less time and with much more comfort. This would directly mean more time saved thus giving the farmer more time to spend on other chores.

The invention of the computer greatly benefits all families today. Computers for farmers are used to schedule their chores such as milking cows, tending to their animals as well as to their crops. That frees the farmer to do other chores. Computers can handle all schedules within the farm that the farmer would usually do. They can maintain the family finance and payroll in a very efficient way.

It is all through these modern methods that farming today has become very efficient. Not only is time saved but also effort as well as money through these advanced equipment.




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