by Nikitha Sattiraju Rao | May 27, 2019 | Agriculture, Economy, Featured
Photo Credit: Farmartin/Wikimedia Commons The average age of American farmers is rising with not enough young farmers to replace them once they retire, indicating trouble for the future of American farming. Farms could further consolidate, threatening the existence of...
by Nikitha Sattiraju Rao | Mar 28, 2019 | Agriculture, Economy, Featured
After years of struggling to make a profit, Brent Cornett, a 7th generation tobacco farmer in Kentucky, decided to abandon the crop three years ago. He went from planting 120 acres of tobacco in 2016 to zero acres this year, completely replacing it with newly...