What Role Do Farmers Play In Farmland

In the video “Farmland,” there were six farmers that took their own roles in each of their farms. They each had interesting chores and responsibilities for their farming business. The video showed the importance of living on a farm and knowing what it is like because most Americans have never been on a farm or a ranch or even know what takes place with farming occupations. The public perceptions created from this are many times incorrect, causing many wrong assumptions in the public. As we watched the video, we noticed a variety of occupations for each of the farmers throughout the agriculture business. Many new technologies were also presented. In my opinion, Ryan Veldhuizen, Margaret Schlass, and David Loberg were three of the most interesting farmers in “Farmland.”

First, Ryan Veldhuizen is a fourth-generation farmer that is taking over the family operation. The focus for Ryan’s operation is the grow pigs and crops to feed the animals. Dealing with public perception, he also dealt with diseased crops. That being said he had to spray chemicals on the plants to help treat them. The public has an issue with chemicals being put on crops because they feel it will harm the animals or humans eating them, an incorrect belief

The focus for her operation is to raise vegetables for markets and people in her community. Some struggles that she had were old equipment, harvesting enough food for all the people, and tending to her crops every single day. She performed everything by herself, meaning she fixed the equipment, harvested the food by herself, and made sure all the crops had enough water and were growing correctly. I thought it was extremely cool that she accomplished growing such a variety of crops all by herself. Also that she was part of the Community Supported Agriculture membership program. Many people supported her which helped her first-generation farm become so