The Farming Game [Board Game, 2-6 Players]

In The Farming Game board game from the Weekend Farmer Company, players develop their part-time farm by planting a variety of crops and leasing additional cattle grazing rights in the hopes that any given resource will pay out BIG so they can quit their "day job" and become a full-time farmer!

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!

More than 350,000 copies of The Farming Game ("The Game Invented on the Seat of a Tractor") have been sold, and this 20th-anniversary edition introduces a new generation to the joys of muck and milking. Every player starts the game with 20 inherited acres and moves through the months (i.e., around the board) trying to build the farm into an independent, successful concern that will feed the whole family.

A fun game, it also has a serious, educational side--having been invented by George Rohrbacher, a farmer in Washington State's Yakima Valley, who thought it up while trying to figure out how to make enough cash to hang on to his family farm.

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. Farming has never been this much fun!