Weekend Farmer The Farming Game

The Farming Game

Whether you’re a real farmer or an urban dweller, you’ll find The Farming Game is an accurate description of the business risks and gambles of farming. Players begin the game with 5,000 money in debt with 20 acres of inherited farmland. As players plant crops and sell livestock, they slowly work their way to success…that is if the elements cooperate. Farming has never been this much fun.

The Board Game Invented on the Seat of a Tractor.

THE FARMING GAME® really was invented on the seat of a tractor. It happened in a hay field just as the sun was coming up in early July 1979. George Rohrbacher, a rancher from Central Washington State, was driving that tractor. He and his wife Ann were struggling to hold on to their family farm. With two droughts within three years they, and many of their neighbors were losing that battle. George and Ann literally bet the ranch the game idea would work and mortgaged everything that wasn’t nailed down to produce the first edition of THE FARMING GAME®. The game, which was first assembled by the handicapped at Portland’s Goodwill Industries, has now sold several hundred thousand copies. Beyond being a fun family game, it has also been used in schools all over the world. In 1994 the World Bank sent George to Russia to oversee the translation of THE FARMING GAME® into Russian to assist the farm privatization effort after the breakup of the Soviet Union.

FEATURES

• An Economic based board game
• Players act as the farmers, who can buy fields, pastures and ridges
• The board also activates the weather cycles and time of year
• The players make their way from winter to fall
• For 2-6 players
• Ages 10 and up