In cantankerous opinions, hard-headed advice, and free-swinging
sketches of real farmers, Bryan Jones addresses everyone who feels
the pull of the land. He accepts the emotional appeal of "going
back to the land" and then takes the unconventional stand that,
above all, farming can be a good way to make money. Against the
grain of public policy that, he maintains, encourages big
agriculture, Jones works out how a shrewd, stubborn small farmer
can still make a go of it.
His keen-eyed sketches of farmers at work show the variety of
ways a farmer may succeed or fail. Even his own neighborhood,
dominated by thousands of acres of corn and high technology, is
peopled with "scalper" who makes a living in the cattle business
with little more stake than a gooseneck trailer, a telephone, and
his native wits; the sheep man who secretly grows rich while
looking poor and raising an animal that other farmer disdain; the
experimenter who never turns a nickel himself, but whose successful
innovations are readily adopted by his neighbors; the hog raiser
who makes a large family pay.
The heart of the book is the primer for novices--and for city
folk who dream of farming. Jones emphasizes the practicalities of
farm finance and recommends sidelines for the beginner--welding,
giving guitar lessons, keeping the books for a local elevator--as
an alternative to starving. He urges newcomers to start small and
to be sure that farming is something they really want to do. To
interested bystanders, "The Farming Game" offers one farmer's
audacious, stimulating, and entertaining view of American
agriculture today.
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