What worries farmers more than their peers in other professions, such as accounting, law, medicine?
There are two main aspects to farming one should be concerned about more than other professions. The first is obvious: A farm must protect its investment through many months of varying and unpredictable weather. The environment seems to find ways to bring about obstacles that can potentially devastate the crop. It can come in the form of unusually cool or hot temperatures, wet or dry conditions, and new diseases or insects. A second worry I believe farmers have more than their peers in other professions involves lawmakers. Generations past always had close ties to family farms. As a result most lawmakers in Washington had direct links to family farms and their needs. As urban population centers have grown, fewer and fewer Americans are growing up close to family farms. While there is nothing wrong with this the result has been fewer lawmakers with farming constituents and backgrounds. Just look at the national focus on accounting fraud, healthcare reform and the banking industry. Farmi
