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The labour market impacts follow a similar pattern. For example, in 2017, of 21.6 million full- and part-time jobs related to the agricultural and food sectors in the United States, direct on-farm employment accounted for only 2.6 million (about 12%). This is broadly in line with the farm share of consumer food expenditures. Meanwhile, the food service industry alone accounted for roughly five times as many jobs 33, 34. Therefore, the food system’s labour market impacts come almost entirely from post-farmgate value chains, although the popular narrative around the impacts of immigration policy on the workforce and so on focuses heavily on farms. The global food dollar series can be extended to include employment data to examine labour market impacts of evolving FVCs.

We understand that you may need specific replacements, so we provide a variety of individual parts for your farm gate assembly. This includes gate leaves, posts, gate eyes, and spring bolt kits. This poem begins, “When God created farm folks, he was surely at his best. He made them something special to help clothe and feed the rest.” This poem also mentions the contributions of the farm wife as being an essential part of the team. 7. “Thank a Farmer” by John Wesley You may have heard funeral poems at other end-of-life services through the years, but you are looking for a poem that fits a particular niche. Farmer poems are a bit harder to find. Here are some to consider. This pattern of declining farm share of consumer food expenditures is apparent in the new global food dollar series as well. We pool the constructed fah, ftah and faafh data to estimate multivariate regression models to illustrate how the global food dollar series correlates with key development indicators such as income and agricultural productivity (see Methods for details, Supplementary Table 4 for variables and data sources, Supplementary Table 5 for results and Supplementary Information for estimation code). In the baseline regression specification, every doubling of per capita real income is associated with a reduction in the farm share of domestic consumer food expenditures by an estimated 5.4 percentage points. The negative association between income and the farm share of consumer food expenditures is robust to a variety of controls, for period and/or country fixed effects, time trends and other explanatory variables (see Supplementary Information for details). We know that this piece is technically more an essay than a poem. Regardless, radio personality Paul Harvey’s speech about farming is wrought with emotion and would make a lovely reading at a funeral. The speech was written in the 1970s, but it gained attention when it was used by Dodge in a Super Bowl ad several years ago. 12. “I’m Just a Farmer” by Unknown

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If you are arranging a farmer’s memorial service, you may want a fitting poem to read at the funeral or to display with photographs of your loved one. Here are some funeral poems for farmers (and cowboy funeral poems ) to consider. Planning a memorial service or funeral service is challenging. While you mourn the loss of a loved one, you are forced to decide cremation or burial, choose who will serve as a pallbearer, and select a menu for the reception following the funeral. You’ll need to think about many details as you suffer from your loved one’s death. American poet Robert Frost often used this poem to invite readers into his poetry collections. The poem is about a farmer (or rancher) who is going out to the pasture, and he asks his wife to accompany him on the short journey. The refrain, “I shan’t be gone long.—You come too” is used throughout the piece. Thoughts on Planning a Funeral Service The value of a systematic, economy-wide FVC data series is evident in the United States, where the US Department of Agriculture’s (USDA’s) Economic Research Service (ERS) has published the ‘food dollar series’ annually since 1947 to measure the value of post-farmgate activities 8, 9, as legally mandated by the Agricultural Marketing Act of 1946. The food dollar series has deeply influenced how researchers, policymakers and FVC actors in the United States think of and approach food policies and agri-food business practices. The food dollar data series has been used to examine competitiveness and performance during a period of rapid transformation of FVCs, to inform anti-trust policy and to design policy interventions to protect family farms, among others 10, 11. Canada is the only other country in which a comparable series has been constructed, for the 1997–2010 period 9. This creed is a series of “I believe” statements on what it means to be a farmer. It begins, “I believe that a man’s greatest pride is his dignity and that no calling bestows this more abundantly than farming.” 9. “The Harvest” by Sherrie Bradley Neal

Farming is the oldest profession, so there is plenty of material from throughout the centuries celebrating farmers and the rural lifestyle. Here are some that may be appropriate for your loved one’s funeral. 11. “So God Made a Farmer” by Paul Harvey Held in Feb 2024, caravans, motorhomes, campervans, holiday homes, lodges, tents, boats and accessories all in one destination. Find out more!

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