Don’t mistake realism for pessimism

One of most common if misguided myths about farmers is that we are permanently pessimistic and resolutely of the ‘glass half-empty’ view.

This caricature has us going about looking to earn our livelihoods constantly scanning the horizons for reasons to be discouraged.

I can’t say I’ve ever noticed farmers to be more innately pessimistic than any other occupation but if we are to perhaps more accurately talk about a wary scepticism then I might be tempted to agree that farmers are a little more sceptical.