Farmville
Imagine a sex therapist who doubles as a farmer…she has three dairy farms, two ponds and a log cabin. I’m David Sparks and now that I’ve got your attention I want you to hang on for a minute and I’ll be back to explain. Well I’ve been ruminating for over a year, which is a fancy word for whining or complaining, that our ranchers and farmers are disappearing in America. You go to ag meetings and at least in Idaho, the average age of a producer is around 57. We’ve talked about the reasons and it boils down to the fact that lots of young people don’t think farming’s cool. Well a company called Zynga came out with a Facebook based game that’s called Farmville where you can get a plot of land and raise anything from a dairy cow to a pumpkin patch. And it even got a sex-therapist in Chicago hooked on being a cyber farmer….Oh and tens of millions of other people as well. Here’s Dave Gray with Zynga: “I really do hope that it does inspire more thought about farming. A lot of people that I speak with in my personal life that have played Farmville are asking more questions about farming. We’ve heard a lot of positive things from people that, while we are a fantasy game, and pumpkins don’t grow in 8 hours in real life, it still invokes an emotion that farming is fun, farming is important.”
