Sitting in my bedroom after a long day of work, I would often scroll through social media to get inspiration for tomorrow’s chores. Maybe someone came up with a more efficient way to feed the chickens, or maybe there’s a new recipe out for a product that swears to rid me of my fly problems. Sometimes there was useful information, but other times? Pure negativity.
More often than not, I would see people asking genuine questions to better the health and wellbeing of their animals get torn down and humiliated because they didn’t know the answer. I would see “activists” against the agricultural industry spread blatantly false information and wish death upon the farmers who spend their lives providing them with the ability to eat their “special diets”. I would see dangerous advice given on a regular basis, with any attempt to defy it resulting in arguments and hostility. But most of all? I saw people who didn’t know any better.
They didn’t know why their information was wrong. They didn’t know they’d been force fed such negativity to the point of thinking that it was normal, that it had to be that way. They didn’t know there’s more to agriculture than what’s posted online.
No more.
I’ve decided, with inspiration from many other farmers across the globe, to use my platform to share the tried and true knowledge that I’ve learned over the years. After all, who better to explain how the industry works than someone who’s been in it? I’ve learned a lot and still have a long way to go, but I believe with the knowledge I do have that I can make the fight against misinformation just a little bit easier.
Hayyy Farms 