Farming has been my life ever since I was a little boy. I watched my dad farm and learned from him. Hopefully I can teach my son how to farm just as good as me. The apple farming market is so good right now but my son feels as though he should go into a different field of work. I truly am disappointed because I wanted to pass on the farming business for generations to come. It's a good way to make money because "when China entered the U.S. Apple juice market, the price of juice apples fell from from $153 a ton in 1995 to $55 a ton in 1998. Twenty years ago the United States grew more apples than China. Today, China grows 15 times more-about half the worlds apples"(Timmerman 204). Growing apples is a great way to make a living and I don't see why my son would want to do anything else.
With Apple farming, I can earn a decent living. I can afford luxuries that I wouldn't be able to afford if I worked somewhere else. The business has grown so much and it keeps growing. I would love to keep farming for the rest of my life, but I'm getting too old to keep farming. I've already taught my son everything I know about farming, so it would be hard to try and teach all of that to someone else. I just want my son to have a good life like I have, and apple farming is a guaranteed way to have a good life. If he wanted to he could be making as much as me and the other farmers in China. "We used to have to pay [480] to [640] per hectare to the government and now they pay us! Ten years ago my 10 hectares produced [3,200] to [4,800] worth of apples. Now they produce [32,000]. Forty percent of that goes to fertilizer,but the remaining 60 percent is ours"(Timmerman 221). My son could live the life that I want him to live if he farms because Apple farming is a growing business that could give him an amazing income.
Solid narrative and development of how apple farming is different than the other food productions we've seen.
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