The Start of Chronicle

i am beginning to hammer out a conception for this blog. rather than it be my own personal journal, contained with entirely personal things i would rather like to talk about something specific. Agriculture is something i want to learn more about. its history and its future. so forthcoming entries i am thinking will be about articles and things i have read in this area. so this blog would sort of a chronicle of my experience and growth in understanding agriculture.

To confess something i am a little ashamed of my agricultural past. i grew up on the farm, but was hardly involved with it at during any point when living at home except last summer while on break from school. all the resources and knowledge from my parents were there to learn everything there is to know about running a farm. i was very much uninterested in farming until i left home for college. now i am playing a catch up game. trying to learn all the stuff i should already know. however, i am glad that no matter how i came to it, i now have a passion for agriculture. it could very well be that if it was forced upon me like a chore, i may resent it at this point and fail to see the its value. i also realize that my lack of knowledge and on the family farm is not entirely my fault. My father, due to being tied to a career, is also not very involved with his own farming. He calls his style of agriculture: "farming by phone." this basically means calling other people to do all th uninvolvement e work for us and then splitting the profits with them. A good friend of family plants and harvests all of our monoculture crops and he does a great job. and in minutes its seems a sprayer can come through and chemicalize the entire crop. We as a farming family are not very well tied to our own land. we possess knowledge about it, but our lives are not built in a way to incorporate the land into our lives. others that do not live on the farm, know its rhythms better than us. this seems to be criminal but this is also not entirely our fault.
Modern agriculture has created such invincible seeds, such accurately destructive chemicals, and such advanced technology that hardly anyone is farming. Technology has taken away farming as a job and lifestyle. i was not needed to help on the farm and know it like the palm of my hand because technology knew it better. it has become more time efficient and all around preferable to let technology take the place of teaching children the ways of the land, how to plant a seed, and the joy of eating its fruits. in many ways agriculture has become too big and too complex.

This is just one of many issues that i think many more people can relate and that i wish to talk about. i will probably try to start finding articles and commenting on them. if you are reading this and you have come across some writings to do with ag. send them my way.