The Farmer

Many urban people do not treat the farmer as a friend But on the farmer to live most of us do depend Without the farmer we would not have milk, bread or meat Or vegetables or fruit to live we have to eat In these times of Climate Change and economic depression the farmer doing it tough One without the other does seem hard enough And add to that falling prices for the produce he grows The farmer surely has his financial woes On who governs the Country the farmer has little say Like all others he has a vote to cast on election day Compared to the urban population the rural seems small And as political power brokers not seen as important at all. The farmer works hard every day of the year Droughts, storms and flooding are things he does fear Sheep and cattle and acres of crops to drought and flooding lost Such things come to him at a huge financial cost.