Farmland

Farmland is a fair representation of a career in farming. There is no hype and no exaggeration. There is no spin. The only way to get a better idea of what US farms are actually like is to quit your day job and become a farmer like one brave woman profiled in this documentary actually did. The scenes are beautiful and they show the diversity in agriculture. The film covers animal and plant agriculture and profiles farms in many different locations in the US. Watch the film and then contact your local university's cooperative extension service to get in touch with farmers in your area. Go visit farms where you live (City dwellers this may be a field trip, but it is one worth making if you can).

I love seeing a man dump baby chickens on the ground and dirty, scared piglets in cramped pens all while happy music plays! this documentary was so insanely biased in favor of animal agriculture while glossing over the extreme abuse and cruelty in this industry. had to watch this for class and boy did i hate it!

I grew up on a farm, and while this is interesting if you want to know about these particular families that are farming (and kudos to them and their hardworking families), for any filmmaker to put forward a documentary with such lack of diversity when representing farming in the USA, is just no longer acceptable. All families focused on are Caucasian and the filmmaker doesn't touch on farm controversy beyond GMOs and how to treat animals, having no mention of land ownership, workers, diversity and discrimination in the locations highlighted.

As a young teen, I spent summers working on my Uncle's dairy farm, and I live in Chicago. So farming is an interesting topic for me. That being said, I absolutely loved this. It was very interesting how these young farmers navigate the fluid farming market and keep the family farm alive in these changing times. It covers a nice variety of different types of the remaining family farms, and does it extremely well. And that's all.

I am well aware there are many other types of farms out there, but it does just that, wonderfully.

I truly enjoyed it.

Sponsored by Monsanto but featuring an organic farm and an organic CSA woman-owned farm. It was a well made film but there is no way to make slaughter animals that never see the light of day, never feel grass beneath their feet, ethical. I felt sick seeing them dump hundreds of chicks on the ground like mulch - and that was them on their best behavior! I need to read labels and make better choices.