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    How do you figure in

    Let's have a bit of fun and look on the lighter side
    of things as to how individual farmers fit into the
    grand scheme of things. In a funny way, this does
    fit into commodity farming. Try this quiz for fun.
    It's based on the assumption that you are going to
    pursue a 35 year career in grain farming and we will
    use averages of the past five years to keep it simple
    in calculating numbers.

    1. At 5 mph, it would take a tractor or combine
    5000 hrs to travel around the earth. Over 35 years,
    how many times will you have driven around the
    earth in a tractor and/or combine?
    2. Since most production is handled twice (field to
    storage, storage to delivery), how many tons of
    product will you have 'lifted' in 35 years?
    3. The average freighter carries roughly 60,000
    tons of cargo (approximately 2 million bushels of
    wheat). Assuming you grew only 60 lb wheat every
    year, based on your production, how many years
    would it take to fill a ship?
    4. If you annually use an operating loan, how much
    would you borrow and pay back over 35 years?
    5.Based on your annual chemical costs over the
    past 5 years, how much will you have spent over 35
    years on these products?
    5. Same for fertilizer.
    6. Assuming again that you only grew 60 lb wheat
    and that one bushel produced about 55 loaves of
    bread, and a family of four consumed 365 loaves a
    year, how many families would you feed with bread
    over 35 years?
    7. On a scale of 1 (hate it) to 10 (I'd rather die than
    not be able to farm), where do you fit in?
    8. Do you see farming mostly as a business or
    mostly as a way of life?

    About twenty years ago, a group of us met with a
    bunch of MP's and Senators who were on a fact
    finding mission investigating the financial health
    and the importance of the farming community and
    their significance to the national economy. At about
    the same time, much was made of the 4 or 5 billion
    being invested in the Ft Mac tar sands annually
    which was then deemed to be this fantastic 'mega-
    project'. We tallied up the total annual investment
    made by the grains, livestock, fruit, vegetable
    industry, etc. and discovered that the annual outlay
    of investment by producers exceeded oil sand
    development by far and we titled our presentation -
    agriculture, the sustainable and renewable annual
    mega project. It did catch the attention of these
    fine folks but never did go beyond that. Point
    being, don't ever underestimate your contribution
    to the health of the nation or to the needs of the
    world's population! Add some of your own
    questions to the quiz and have fun.
    Rockpile

    #2
    Funny, I was just figuring out how much more my new accountant(couple years ago now) will cost me in 20 years time over the old one.

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