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I am a programmer and run a dairy and egg farm. The two professions go very well together.

by pard68 3y ago

randomdata 3y ago
I am a programmer and run a grain farm. Can confirm. I expect farming goes well with just about any profession, though. The data shows that almost all farms also have on an off-farm income, and the large majority of farmers have their primary income come from an off-farm job.
- ehnto 3y ago
  Have you found programming to be a useful tool in your farming endevors?
  - randomdata 3y ago
    Yeah. Like recently I was finding it difficult to stay on top of the grain markets amid other things going on, so I built a program that regularly polls local elevators to find out how much they are paying for grain and if the software thinks there is a change in price that I might be interested in, it sends a push notification to my phone to let me know. There is a lot more that I'd love to do, but it's hard to find the time. Perhaps even more useful is the engineering mindset in general. For example, when equipment breaks, troubleshooting an repairing it isn't really a whole lot different than debugging software. Although, having grown up on a farm, I'm not sure if that came before or after my foray into programming.
    - ehnto 3y ago
      That's awesome, thanks for the reply. I have worked on software in the grain industry, just by happenstance an agency I worked for had some grain network operators as clients. I'd say you could probabaly sell what you built, but then you run the risk of accidentally having a software career again. I have wanted to move away from software as a career and start doing something else in a different industry, but have always hoped that I could keep writing software as a tool to help automate the boring bits of the new work. Very cool to hear that you've done that!
      - randomdata 3y ago
        > I have worked on software in the grain industry If willing and able, I'd be quite interested to know more about what you were working on. > I'd say you could probabaly sell what you built I think so too, and have considered it, but I foresee reliable access to data becoming an issue when others see money being made. That's a problem I am not sure I want to try to solve. > but then you run the risk of accidentally having a software career again. Oh, I still have a software career. That's in large part why I was struggling to keep up with the markets and work on my own projects!

I am a programmer and run a dairy and egg farm. The two professions go very well together.

by pard68 3y ago

I am a programmer and run a dairy and egg farm. The two professions go very well together.

I am a programmer and run a grain farm. Can confirm. I expect farming goes well with just about any profession, though. The data shows that almost all farms also have on an off-farm income, and the large majority of farmers have their primary income come from an off-farm job.

ehnto 3y ago
Have you found programming to be a useful tool in your farming endevors?
- randomdata 3y ago
  Yeah. Like recently I was finding it difficult to stay on top of the grain markets amid other things going on, so I built a program that regularly polls local elevators to find out how much they are paying for grain and if the software thinks there is a change in price that I might be interested in, it sends a push notification to my phone to let me know. There is a lot more that I'd love to do, but it's hard to find the time. Perhaps even more useful is the engineering mindset in general. For example, when equipment breaks, troubleshooting an repairing it isn't really a whole lot different than debugging software. Although, having grown up on a farm, I'm not sure if that came before or after my foray into programming.
  - ehnto 3y ago
    That's awesome, thanks for the reply. I have worked on software in the grain industry, just by happenstance an agency I worked for had some grain network operators as clients. I'd say you could probabaly sell what you built, but then you run the risk of accidentally having a software career again. I have wanted to move away from software as a career and start doing something else in a different industry, but have always hoped that I could keep writing software as a tool to help automate the boring bits of the new work. Very cool to hear that you've done that!
    - randomdata 3y ago
      > I have worked on software in the grain industry If willing and able, I'd be quite interested to know more about what you were working on. > I'd say you could probabaly sell what you built I think so too, and have considered it, but I foresee reliable access to data becoming an issue when others see money being made. That's a problem I am not sure I want to try to solve. > but then you run the risk of accidentally having a software career again. Oh, I still have a software career. That's in large part why I was struggling to keep up with the markets and work on my own projects!