Our Farm Bureau visitors helped us learn economics. Tuesday May 23, 2000, three
people came from the Farm Bureau to talk to us about
farming and how much a farmer makes when he sells his
crop. They told us what kind of machinery they use when
they harvest their crop. They told us that labor is the
most expensive thing a farmer has to pay for because of
trucking and picking the crop. May 24, 2000, Mrs.
Schoedel, Mrs. Anderson and Ms. Anderson came in for a
45-minute class with Mrs. Eldridges' group. These three
ladies came to talk about the importance of agriculture
and how farming works. Farmers have to pay for a lot of
things. Their first is Labor (workers) which is about 1/3
of their income. Then come equipment, land, tax, repair,
seed, and fertilizer. |
Tuesday we had three ladies named
Mrs. Shoedel, Mrs. Flo Anderson, and Mrs. Sherry Anderson
come into our class to tell us about Economics and how
they work. First of all they gave us a bag of corn and a
sheet of paper to write down how money we had and to to
put down the cost of the thing we bought. I had 17 pieces
of corn, which was supposed to be money! After every
thing I bought I ended up with six pieces of corn or six
dollars! After that we were split up into five groups
called farmers, truckers, processors, and grocers! I was
a grocer and so was Meghan and a few other people. My
group took the food the put it into cups, then after
we're done we gave them to the other people. Then we ate
the food, now we know how long and how much work it takes
to make the food. I wish they could come into our class
again, sometime! Thank you for coming to our classroom. I had a good time. I learned that there are a lot of different kinds of farm equipment. There are different kinds of equipment for different kinds of things like planting, picking, and grazing and now just from you I know that I can make a great snack for my family by mixing raisins, M&Ms peanuts. and Cheerios. I learned that you have to do other things than just plant. I also learned that if you plant one year and do bad you can't just give up you have to hope you can do better the next year. I learned about profit. I also learned about how the food gets from place to place. Like how it gets from the farm into a truck then the processor to the truck and then to the grocer. I think that farming is cool. I am glad that you came into our classroom. Thanks again! ...Jake Tuesday, some ladies from the Farm Bureau came to teach us about economics and how the food you eat goes from the farm to the trucker to the processor back to the trucker then to the grocer and finally, to you, the consumer. During this activity the ladies from the Farm Bureau passed out laminated cards to all of us. I was a grocer, meaning that I had to pass the snack out to my classmates. The snack was called G.O.R.P. G.O.R.P stands for good old raisins and peanuts. This is one of the best ways that I've spent 45 minutes in class this school year thanks to Katy Schoedel, Sherry Anderson, and Flo Anderson, thanks! ...Tim I learned a lot from the
Farm Bureau ladies Mrs. Schoedel, Mrs. Anderson and Mrs.
Flo Anderson. Like profit is the many left over from
bills and some farmers get bad profits and good profits.
If farmers have workers the farmers needs money to pay
the workers so the profit for the former might be lower.
But if your farming plants you need good soil like rich
soil and not clay or you will have lots of water. And the
weather has to be like a little rain then sun so the
plants get water for food and sun for energy to make the
planet grow. And a farmer needs sprays like fertilizer
and other sprays so you don't have bugs and so you do
have a good growing plants. |