The average age of America’s farmers is 60 years old. If young people can’t get in, old people can’t get out. In the next 15 years, nearly 50 percent of America’s farmland will change hands. More than 50 percent of all farming equity is owned by people old enough to retire. Hermit curmudgeon farmers need to invest in the next generation. Young people need to invest in hermit curmudgeons. In this can-do presentation based on 20 years mentoring interns and apprentices to germinate young entrepreneurial farmers, Salatin will offer a road map for both generations to create fields of farmers for tomorrow.
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Joel Salatin is author of Fields of Farmers, where Joel speaks about his worry that most of our farmers today are well into there golden years and his concern that their farms will not be passed on to the next generation of farmers.
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