This brief Animal Ag Alliance YouTube post states the obvious: we don’t live in FarmVille. While the Facebook/social app may be fun for millions, the fact is 98 percent of us will never work or live on a working farm.
But perhaps the cutesy animated time-killer can as least spur on some questions among its faithful such as: How long does it really take to grow a crop of soybeans? How do farmers really go about feeding and caring for their animals? That combine costs how much to cultivate my otherwise highly affordable food?!
There are several farm resources that branch off the Ag Alliance post, so before you head off to fertilize your neighbor’s crops [and then shift gears by putting a hit on someone in your mafia-inspired game], take a minute to appreciate what the small handful of real farmers do to keep us well fed.
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