Farming Challenges

Australian farmers produce around 93% of the food we consume each day in Australia.  Each farmer produces enough food to feed up to 600 people each day (including people overseas).
There are many challenges that farmers face in there effort to feed Australia.

Many young people do not see farming as a career choice as the believe myths such as farming is very hard physically, you work long hours and receive low pay.  These myths are not true and farming is an exciting career option for young people today.

With the improvement in technology farming has become easier.  The invention of automatic milking machines and computer scanning in dairies helps to keep progress in the dairy running smoothly and maintains quality control.

Inventions such as these mean that farming is no longer as labour intensive as it has been in the past.
With improvements in water conservation and rainfall, drought has become less of a burden on farmers and they are able to produce better quality crops resulting in increase yield and higher pay.

 

Brocco tells a story of how farmers look after waterways

 

The farming sector has many vacancies available and this makes it an attractive choice as a career as it offers good job security.