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Wheat farming the modern way
Farming today compared to the old way
Wheat farming the modern way
Dear readers, starting with this post we are going to write a few posts,
where we would like to show you that overall we are better off today than we
were in the past, one of these improvement has been happening because of the
new machines that have been invented in the last century or so, but perhaps to
understand this progress we need to describe one of the main improvements that
I have witnessed myself personally, so I would like to talk about; Farming
today compared to the old ways.
First of all let us acknowledge that modern wheat farming in Australia
and in many other parts of the world as well has been able to slash the present
cost of living a lot; today modern farming thanks to the many new farming
machine available and also the many new fertilises available are able to
produce wheat and other produce a lot cheaper than in the past, so, food for
most of us people has become a lot cheaper, therefore we are better off today
in many ways.
In this post including another couple of post that we are going to post
later, we would like to invite our readers to compare how different farming and
farming life was at the time when I was young in the fifties, and also, how
hard was life then because most of us had to work hard just to earn enough to
feed ourselves and our families, as you will become aware by the time you
finish reading this articles.
This difference that we are talking about would apply to the farmers and
the general public as well, because today it affects both of them in a
beneficial way. So there is a lot to be said about this great difference in
cost and also hardship or easiness and it all has happened during my life time,
so, there are good reasons to believe that our standard of living has improving
a lot, at least in the sense of being able to feed ourselves with wheat and
other farm products, because the cost of farm products are more affordable
today than in the past; so let us compare the cost of living and some of the
reasons why this has happened and also talk about the farming life that we used
to live, at the same time, perhaps just for the sake of seeing where we have
come from.
Today we often wonder how easy it is to grow and harvest wheat, at least
it seems so when we look at a video that shows harvest time in the wheat farms,
we see a few harvester machines in a field collect the wheat in no time at all,
and because of this speed of these wonderful combine harvester machine food is
a lot cheaper today than it used to be; of course these machines are only part
of the machinery that helps the farmers produce the wheat, because there are
many more machines required, so, just to inform the general public a bit more,
because some of them we guess would not know what is involved at all, let us
talk about and show here under a few more machines that are required to work
the fields and produce wheat today.
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Some farmers' machinery
We could say that the most important
machine in the farms is the tractor, as this machine could be used in all sorts
of farming, in wheat farming the tractor is followed by the harvester machine
and other devices to till the soil and to sow the seeds, and all these machines
put together make farming a lot easier today, and therefore wheat can be
produced a lot cheaper, this of course helps keep the price of bread and other
wheat made products down, since wheat is the main food elements required in the
western world to prepare food, therefore, this new way of farming helps a great
deal just about everybody, since wheat would be one of the main ingredients to
make foods for us to eat and we require lots of it.
Of course if we want to talk about farming
in general there is more to say than just wheat farming, because there are many
other things that the bloke on the land would produce, see this link here-under
how Wikipedia explains farming.
Dear readers, now let us continue to talk
about wheat farming and the great benefit that we get from it; we should be
really happy about what is happening here because it is good for us all, so,
today while we are writing this article, we would like to point out that there
is a great difference in the ways of living and definitely we are a lot better
off today than we were, when I was young:
Now, for comparison sake let me explain
this to you, today here in Australia there are a few places that a 600g loaf of
bread costs you just one dollar, we know that this bread is sold at a very
special price from these supermarket, in order to get the customers to the
shop, but we often wonder and we do not know how it could be done so cheap but
they do it anyhow, this very low price of bread is possible only because the
farmer can produce the wheat cheap for a start.
Then, because the wheat is cheap the price
of bread could also be cheap, the supermarkets make it even cheaper to attract
customers, because the supermarkets have a price war to attract customers on
bread and also on milk, so, we can buy a loaf of bread for one dollar and we
can buy a two litre bottled milk for two dollars, that works out at one dollar
per litre, again how they can do it I do not know, but they do it anyhow; so
there is plenty of cheap wholesome food around for us to enjoy, thanks to the
farmers and the supermarkets.
But even though bread and milk is cheap
beyond compare, there are people that still complain about the cost of living
today, I know that what I am talking about here are only a few items and a lot
more are needed to live well. But just for comparison sake let us show you how
easily we can afford to buy bread and milk to day, you see today most people on
the government old age pension in Australia would receive about 700 dollars per
fortnight, which would be about 50 dollars per day, they could very easily
afford to buy bread and milk and other food items.
Now that we have said how easy it is to buy
bread and other staple food today, let us leave behind this affordability of
food today and let us see how things were done in the past. You see, when I was
young things were a lot harder than today, for sure we could not buy bread and
milk as easy as we buy them today, because to produce these things took a lot
more physical work than today and therefore they were a lot more expensive,
they were so because the way of producing them was different, in order to show
you what we mean, hereunder we are going to describe how wheat farming was done
at the time when I was young and also how hard it was for some people just to
have something to eat, even if it was just a piece of bread and butter, or
bread and tomatoes or other basic things that one could find in the fields if
you were in the farms. Anyhow, to start with let me describe how farming was
done then, in this following article, farming the old ways, so that we could
have a better understanding of the whole issue and be able to compare the past
with the present way of farming. Anyhow how I said at the beginning of this
post, we are going to write a few posts about this subject and this post is
becoming too long, so we will write about ‘farming the old way’ in our next
post.
Do not forget that this is only the first post and to understand what we want to convey you need to read our next to post at least.
Do not forget that this is only the first post and to understand what we want to convey you need to read our next to post at least.
See you soon.
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