Colleagues at a U.S. based agricultural publication recently conducted an on-line, unscientific poll to ask farmers what they liked most about farming.
Independence: 55 percent
Growing things: 21 percent
Machinery and tools: 9 percent
Nature: 5 percent
Other: 4 percent
Livestock: 3 percent
Financial rewards: 3 percent
I was surprised that livestock rated so low, but its relationship to financial rewards probably has a lot to do with it. I wonder if Canadian results to such a poll would be similar? We’ll have to test it out.
