Square foot to acre Conversion Chart Near 4500 square feet

Farming isn’t generally considered an immediately profitable venture. But Stone made money in his first year. The business doubled and doubled, and doubled again, until they were up to 2 ½ acres and 8 staff. The farm was making $250,000 a year, but they had a lot of overhead.

According to salary data for farmers, ranchers and other agricultural managers from May 2016, the average salary is $75,790 a year. In contrast, they make a median salary of $66,360, with half getting lower salaries and half being paid more.

Kentucky is the best state, and Morgantown is the city with the highest pay for farmers.

For the same reasons that farmers throughout history have not been able to make money. Their particular product is homogenous across producers, and almost perfectly substitutable with other products. Farmers have essentially no market power. No market power, no profits.

The problem of small farmer livelihood is aggravated due to the fact that small farmers suffer from many production risks like drought, flood, lack of adequate use of inputs, poor extension leading to large yield gaps, lack of assured and adequate irrigation, crop failure and so on.

On average, farmers are paid $1.45 per gallon for milk it costs them $2.00 to produce. With just a few exceptions, dairy farmers have not been getting paid what it costs them to care for their cows for years. The so-called “solution” to not getting paid the costs of farming is to produce more milk.

The reasons are three-fold: the lack of accountability among farmer cooperative leaders; cooperatives and farmers’ associations are formed mainly to access government dole-outs; and the government agency (e.g., CDA), which has oversight responsibility on cooperatives, is oriented towards regulations of cooperatives …

The results revealed that common problems encountered by rice farmers were: high cost of inputs, low price of palay, lack of capital, labor problem, lack of postharvest facilities, pest and diseases and irrigation system.

What you can do to help Filipino rice farmers

1. Rural Rising Philippines. Rural Rising Philippines is a social enterprise that endorses the “rescue buying” of agricultural products.
2. Farmer-Community Assistance Program.
3. Sadiwa.
4. Bagsakan Farmers Market.
5. Veggies for Good.
6. Project Pesante.
7. Bayanihan Para Sa Magsasaka.

Our country is no stranger to crisis. From natural calamities to social and political turbulence, the Philippines consistently ranks among the riskiest countries in the world. The high level of poverty among our farmers also makes them highly at risk for the effects of these crises.