If you want to start a new farm you face high land prices, a lack of access to capital, and difficulty finding a willing labor force that will work for farm wages. Not to mention the physical ...

Becoming a farmer wasn’t something Aaron Blackmon always aspired to do, but he is thankful for the opportunities agriculture has given him. The North Carolina hog farmer and Extension agent pairs a ...

At the Porter County Fair on Thursday, Ron Birky, of Morgan Township, said he retired as a farmer after 46 years. “I was raised on a farm,” he said, but that’s not a guarantee he would become a farmer ...

LYNCHBURG — Sun-tanned and taxed from a common seven-day work week, Virginia farmers may seem older — and that’s probably because they are. Virginia farmers are 59.5 years old on average, one year ...