{"id":24258,"date":"2015-06-15T16:53:17","date_gmt":"2015-06-15T16:53:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wfbf.com\/?p=24258"},"modified":"2015-06-15T16:53:17","modified_gmt":"2015-06-15T16:53:17","slug":"encouraging-more-farmers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wfbf.com\/blogs\/encouraging-more-farmers\/","title":{"rendered":"Encouraging More Farmers"},"content":{"rendered":"
It\u2019s not exactly a secret that the American farm population is a dwindling one. Our productivity given our lack of sheer numbers is absolutely astounding and continued innovation in production techniques is enough to put any other industry to shame.<\/p>\n
Now it\u2019s time for me to step in and play devil\u2019s advocate. Perhaps we aren\u2019t putting enough focus into recruiting more farmers. There are thousands of farms with no successor and the average American farmer is fifty-five years old. That means that there are less farmers coming into the fold than those exiting the business and when the effects of said phenomena are spread across the entire country it creates quite the conundrum.<\/p>\n