More Young People Are Becoming Farmers

[DEAD7]

"For only the second time in the last century, the number of farmers under 35 years old is increasing, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture's latest Census of Agriculture," the WashPost's Caitlin Downey reports in a front-pager with the lovely headline, "A growing movement." 69% of the surveyed young farmers had college degrees -- significantly higher than the general population.

More young people are becoming farmers

 

[blotter]

Last I heard the average age for a farmer was 63. Not much energy at that age to do anything but run tractors.

Just have some greenhouses where I'm at and trying to buy a med/large farm hopefully before the decade is over. We need more young people setting up farms and getting off these annual crops, planting fruit and nut trees/shrubs. Biggest export by weight in the US is topsoil because of garbage practices. Iowa should be heaven on earth but idiots turned it into a corn field

 

[thekingsmen]

Young people should.

 

[Orbital-Fetus]

i'm by no means a farmer but i had a dope little back yard when i lived in BK.
me and my girl grew lettuce, potatoes, squash, mint, strawberries, tomatoes and a gang of other shyt.
it was nice to go and make a salad from things we grew and it tasted so much better.

can't wait till i live somewhere where we can do that again.

 

[ill]

Crazy how technology advanced but people are reverting back to natural farming.

I think it’s really good that young people are farming. Providing food and having the ability to produce and self sustain for your family is huge and provides a certain freedom vs relying on big box stores.

 

[Deflatedhoopdreams]

Farmers make bank. And most these young people are taking over the farming business of their grandparents and parents.

And they can ride the big trackers all day and drink beer and be their own boss.

 

[hashmander]

i'm not a farmer, but i'm a backyard gardener.

i will be farming in jamaica though.

 

[Dad]

I wonder if we can profit the same way. Seeing these cacs are sitting high by paying for cheap labor by undocumented immigrants on land that their parents, parents stole and passed down to them.

 

[blotter]

I wonder if we can profit the same way. Seeing these cacs are sitting high by paying for cheap labor by undocumented immigrants on land that their parents, parents stole and passed down to them.

Hard part is getting started. Plan is to basically set up a fruit&nut tree farm in a legal state and grow cannabis and annual produce while waiting on the trees to produce. From there it's basically knowing what's going on with your soils and renting a tree shaker/hiring labor for the couple months of the year of harvest.

Everything needed to learn how to analyze soil tests and how to adjust is on YouTube.

Edit - there are also people making bank off small plots closer to city centers using intensive methods. Lot's of different ways to make it work