The median age of a farmer in the US and Canada is 58.7. Almost 20% of farmers are above the age of 70. Why aren't younger people choosing 'small farm owner' as an occupation anymore?
The median age of a farmer in the US and Canada is 58.7. Almost 20% of farmers are above the age of 70...
Who cares, robots will replace all jobs.
Because new land isn't being made, retard. Old farmers have to die so new farmers can use the land.
those farmers inherited their land
farms cost millions up millions of dollars to buy
Young people do not have the money to become farmers
Clarkson's Farm explains this actually, Caleb is an exception but most young would-be farmers move to the cities for fun and profit. Mostly the industry is becoming a mid-life crisis nexus point for wealthy older men to roleplay farmer.
lame globalist Jew troll talking points.
Young farmers inherit farms from older farmers, been that way for thousands of years.
The PROBLEM is GOVERNMENT.
And yet you vote for government. Curious.
Cuz public grade school only brainwashes sure to make sure they pay vast money into colleges and debt and become wage slaves they’re not paid to make kids want to be farmers
imo, farms are just the first vitim of the coming population collapse
farmers used to have tons of kids and those would inherit the farms, even if some of them would go to the cities
thats not the case anymore
rural populatons are dying out
The only viable farmland is in southern Ontario where land is obscenely expensive or the Prairies which is facing soil collapse, intrusion by resource development and corporate farms
Universities have farming programs so I guess the government or banks want farmers to have a degree even if they grew up on a farm
Pesticides and fertilizers are all highly regulated requiring contractors or taking additional courses and training
Climate change is ever pressing concern and can wipe out a year's profits due to poor yields
Farm equipment is not cheap and no one knows how to repair stuff so they just spend money to hire people.
Younger people only want to be influencers or streamers and make millions sitting on their ass instead of working hard farming.
Younger people for the most part dislike nature and love he hustle and hustle of city life.
Plus it pays like shit
This is speculation but
I thought about it whenever I was new to business. Maybe try with a ranch or some sort of exotic crop. But then decided it wouldn’t work out. I’d rather have a plant nursery than a farm desu
The fucking boomers wont sell their land till they are 90
NO ONE TEACHES YOUNG PEOPLE HOMESTEADING YOU DUMB FAGGOT
farmers used to have tons of kids and those would inherit the farms
Yeah and now they have less, so they inherit MORE.
Cuz public grade school only brainwashes sure to make sure they pay vast money into colleges
This also.
"Get yor duhgree derp!"
kinda hard to be a farmer and an influencer
didnt stop bill gates
Why aren't younger people choosing 'small farm owner' as an occupation anymore?
How exactly do you expect young people to do that even if they wanted to?
need at least a couple dozen acres, if not hundreds of acres of farmland, that's a million bucks
need a harvester, proprietary GMO seeds, fertilizers, crop insurance, etc., another million bucks
need the weather to behave, so just blind luck
need market stability, good luck with that while trump and his merry band of retards are in office
and then assuming a twenty-something magically could get a bank to lend them several million dollars to do all of this and everything thing went perfectly well, after servicing their debts they would probably just barely break even every year, because they are competing with megacorp farms who benefit from economies of scale they could never even dream of
and if anything ever goes wrong along the 20-30 years they are paying off all the debt from starting their farm, they instantly go bankrupt, have their land seized, and sold off to the megacorps for pennies on the dollar
Yeah its a real mystery why younger people don't become farmers.
be me
veteran, early 30s
have ridiculously high paying job
go back to college to burn gi bill for no reason, why not
all of these questions they ask in these mandatory classes. they phrase things like, "explain why niggers are disadvantaged because of whitey and his politics"
i looked at a lot of this like, what the fuck is this? you're supposed to ask a question and make students argue a point. i can understand pick a side as an exercise, sure.
i started be a real fuxking thorn in their ass to the point they threatened me. the female "professors" were the worst, as george orwell said: the most bigoted swallowers of slogans and other bullshit from the party politics
they got even more super pissed at me for derailing the propaganda train a couple times and getting others to really question whats going on
that picture....that picture, man. it is painfully accurate
I don't have enough money to start (or collateral) and there's not enough profit for loan and interest and providing for my family and retirement.
that picture....that picture, man. it is painfully accurate
Another good one.
anti trump
Okay reddit. KYS
It's not worth farming to the kids. Why you they want to bust their asses on a farm, when they can s all the land and have generational wealth.
i had someone i knew try to insult me for not having muh degree before talking about a subject. someone who was almost 100k in debt with no way to pay it back and no path to getting a job. and you're tryin to call me stupid and ignorant? not qualified to make a determination on my own?
oh man, i laughed and laid into this person so hard they still wont talk to me to this day. kekkin just remembering that
because you have to own a farm
It's not worth farming to the kids. Why you they want to bust their asses on a farm, when they can s all the land and have generational wealth.
Kid inherts land worth 10 million. Becomes 400 million by retirement age, and 4 Billion in 80 years.
Generational wealth.
Meanwhile they can make a good living hiring young kids to run equipment and bring in crops and livestock.
It's a FANTASTIC LIFE!
Even city boys like Bill Gates got in on it. He's the largest single farmer in the USA now.
Because start up costs are very high. If you aren’t born into it you will need to make a lot of money before you start.
Because new land isn't being made, retard
New land is forming all the time stupid.
It costs like 5 million to buy the land to start a farm.
Maybe that's what the South Africans are for
New farmers
No, Blackrock.
Read the childhood story of the goose that laid golden eggs.
You know very damn well why.
Because "small farm" is no longer a thing.
You either have a gigantic 2000+ acre operation, or you have what is called a "hobby farm" which only produces enough for a family to consume, not enough to provide to market.
Any advertisement selling farmland, regardless of how many acres is at least a million dollars. I've seen ads for 150 acres next to ads for 1600 acres and both were within 200,000 of each other in price. jew bankers have it rigged in a way that favours big corporate farming operations who will only hire foreigners, the only way anyone else gets a farm is by inheriting it.
The (((giant)))
It's not worth farming in general. There is no money in small scale farming, which is 86% of farms in the US.
exactly. i watched a small farm, corn fed good old aryan boy explaining his costs. this was years ago, too
$400k for one season between seed, (and those royalties/other evil shit from Monsanto companies) fertilizer, machinery costs, labor, and he said that really didn't cover all of it. that was just to start.
they had to make sure all was in order and ran perfectly or they'd lose their ass quickly. they aren't making money like a casino doing this, it's like any other business with narrow margins
Everyone I know whos my age and works on a farm does so because they grew up one and have/are inheriting family land. However, farmers in my area are selling their land in record time because they're getting older, don't want to keep doing the work, and are offered very lucrative development contracts by various parties as the value of their land keeps skyrocketing the more they build here, so at least for my area farming is dying out.