What are the advantages of commercial farming?

Answer 1

the advantages are that it can be very rewarding for you and for generations of your family and is a good way of life for many people the disadvantages are obvious commercial farming is hard work and unpredictable it is not guaranteed money a drought or flood can wipe out a seasons worth of hard work.

Answer 2

Agriculture supports people with plenty of food. People can't live without food. To say it in another way is that agriculture gives us the most important matter in the world. Besides, it may also the farmers get money. It makes our biosphere-our Earth more balanced.

Answer 3

Advantages:

• Everything is produced on a big scale: more land for crops means more income for the producer and more product going off the farm
• Use of machinery (often large, modernized machinery) make chores such as feeding animals, seeding, spraying, tilling, and harvesting crops easier and less time-consuming. Bigger machinery on bigger fields means less time spent on that field.
• Improved seed cultivars used means bigger returns to the producer - more yeilds/acre puts more money in the producer's pocket
• Business oriented farming, where producers and their families run the farm as a family business, not as a hobby, even though one or more spouse may have an off-farm job to supplement income to that farm.
• Create job opportunities for those who want to work on a farm, be it grain, livestock or mix of both.

Disadvantages:

• Lots of income coming in also means lots of expenses going out. This does not always equal in profits. A producer can get in the red quite easily with expenses outweighing income.
• Hiring employees may even out the workload for the producer, but the producer needs to pay those employees to work. This is one of the expenses that a producer has to pay out in order to have the farm function like it should.
• Magnet for negativity from non-ag community about animal welfare, environmental concerns, messages about how "big agribusinesses are greedy," etc.
• Not always a low-cost option of a way of farming, though commercial producers are adopting such practices more and more.