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American agriculture is aging — so now what?
Story Date: 12/22/2017
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Source: Frank Giles, GROWING PRODUCE, 12/18/17
Recently, the National Young Farmers Coalition released a survey that provided an eye-opening statistic. The figure showed that farmers over the age 65 now outnumber farmers under 35 by a margin of six to one. It also showed that nearly two-thirds of farmland is managed by someone older than 55 years. The National Agricultural Statistics Service estimates that nearly 100 million acres of U.S. farmland will change ownership in the next five years.
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