The many questions-not-worth-their-own-thread question thread XIX
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ELITEOFWARMAN8
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Weeding, fertilizing, spraying, irrigating. Maintaining equipment, fences, facilities, and buildings. Caring for livestock. Sometimes working side jobs.
Assuming he only has a single type of crop, planting, spraying, fertilizing, shipping etc to maintain the crops and running the entire business end of the farm. plus you have maintenance of the equipment and the farm.
Most farmers will plant a variety of crops and/or raise animals. By having a variety of crops you space out plantings, harvestings, etc so when you get done planting one crop you move into planting the next.
Animals need constant maintenance. Feeding, checking or treating illness, breeding, milking/shearing/egg collection, selling and buying, again maintenance of facilities and the general business aspects.
Yes, in colder places there will be less to do in hte middle of winter, but there is usually something. People with smaller operations often cut wood and do maintenance during the winter and larger farms will do a lot on the business end.
Most farmers will plant a variety of crops and/or raise animals. By having a variety of crops you space out plantings, harvestings, etc so when you get done planting one crop you move into planting the next.
Animals need constant maintenance. Feeding, checking or treating illness, breeding, milking/shearing/egg collection, selling and buying, again maintenance of facilities and the general business aspects.
Yes, in colder places there will be less to do in hte middle of winter, but there is usually something. People with smaller operations often cut wood and do maintenance during the winter and larger farms will do a lot on the business end.
Ajidica
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I was going to say engage in riotous orgies with hookers, cocaine, and blackjack.
I guess your idea is more realistic though.
LegionSteve
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From the occasional days I spent working on a farm when I was young, that seemed to be the case. There is always work to do on a farm.
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It's less a matter of if you could keep them busy(if you wanted to work an 8 hours day yourself) and more a matter that unless you're a pretty big operation the profit margin isn't enough to offer a wage that could support another person.(Edit: ah nm, I catch the gist of that now)
Did the question actually want a more specific answer along the lines of, "What are the typical tasks that go into row cropping in a 12 month cycle?"
ELITEOFWARMAN8
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Civciv5
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Why does wikipedia display several alphabets with only one letter?
Something like this
ភាសាខ្មែរ
It makes me think that some alphabets have only one letter.
Something like this
ភាសាខ្មែរ
It makes me think that some alphabets have only one letter.
shadowplay
your ad here
Is spray-on sunblock as effective as the kind you rub on?
Civciv5
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To me it are all rectangles.
Fonts?
there's loads of different letters there...your computer/browser probably just can't handle the character set
You spray it on then rub it in, don't you?
MagisterCultuum
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Actually, I remember reading a study once that found that sunblock can actually increase the risk of cancer if you rub it in too much. Sunscreen works best when it absorbs the UV rays at the surface of the skin, so that the free radicals released when it breaks down are not absorbed by the layers of skin that are alive and growing.
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