Source: DELTA FARM PRESS, 10/18/16

Who will farm the land? That’s a question many people have been asking as the U.S. farm population became grayer. (The last figures I saw put the average age of the U.S farmer at 57.) There was a time when growers discouraged their children from following in their footsteps or advised them to learn another profession and – if they still wanted to farm – come back later. 

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