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Fresh Take: Will Gen-Z Have Enough Farmers To Feed The U.S.?
Forbes ^ | Chloe Sorvino

Posted on 03/07/2024 12:15:06 PM PST by nickcarraway

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To: nickcarraway

The number family farms/ranches has been going down since I was a kid.

Between AI and corporate farming, the family farm/ranch will continue to go extinct...


21 posted on 03/07/2024 12:46:44 PM PST by montanajoe ( )
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To: Jamestown1630

I know a number of women in ag, and they have the appropriate background to be successful, such as the LLC of my wife’s family, 90% female. I doubt they are who government Leftists want to ‘help’.


22 posted on 03/07/2024 12:48:09 PM PST by jjotto ( Blessed are You LORD, who crushes enemies and subdues the wicked.)
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To: suasponte137

It’s not easy being a farmer and it’s really hard to start
farming unless you have a lot of money for the initial investment and if you have that kind of money you probably don’t want to farm.


23 posted on 03/07/2024 12:50:56 PM PST by tiki
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To: Jamestown1630
There are a LOT of great videos of young women farming and doing all the formwork, driving combines and tractors, fixing equipment. It's very impressive.

Check out YouTube for Women Farmers. So many of the ladies are capitalizing on their fitness and good looks! Looks like they know how to monetize their videos.

I like Kate's Ag - Farm to Fashion for a no-nonsense, hard-working young lady on a huge wheat farm in Montana. She started a fashion line to pick up some more money, too. Smart young lady! I just watched a "short" she posted that she's been having some serious health issues and didn't post videos for a while. It sounds like she's doing better, but that was very sad to hear.

24 posted on 03/07/2024 12:52:14 PM PST by ProtectOurFreedom (“Occupy your mind with good thoughts or your enemy will fill them with bad ones.” ~ Thomas More)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

Thanks. I know long-time family farms are often in the hands of women.


25 posted on 03/07/2024 12:54:27 PM PST by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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To: nickcarraway
Title needs editing:

Fresh Take: Will Gen-Z Have Enough Avocado Farmers To Feed The U.S.?

26 posted on 03/07/2024 12:57:23 PM PST by Tell It Right (1st Thessalonians 5:21 -- Put everything to the test, hold fast to that which is true.)
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To: moviefan8

“Electricity comes out of the wall.”

Uh, this way of thinking is real.

Somewhere in Michigan a local government was strutting and crowing about their new electric vehicles.

Then a reporter asked where the electricity came from.

The government woman said “From the building,” pointing to the building beside them.

Then a guy from the power company chimed in and said it came from a coal-powered steam plant.

I’m not making this up.


27 posted on 03/07/2024 12:57:34 PM PST by packagingguy
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To: Semper Vigilantis

according to Bloomberg it’s easy. throw some seeds in the ground, water them and plants grow. anyone can do it!


28 posted on 03/07/2024 1:00:55 PM PST by Qwapisking ("IF the Second goes first the First goes second" L.Star )
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To: nickcarraway

As a partial Breatharian, I survive on little more than what I can find in my kitchen and refrigerator, and infrequent trips to the supermarket or stuff from Amazon, so this is of little concern to me.


29 posted on 03/07/2024 1:01:16 PM PST by ansel12 ((NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.))
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To: packagingguy

Isn’t Michigan where that dunderhead woman was located who said Obama got all of his money for health care “from his stash”?


30 posted on 03/07/2024 1:01:40 PM PST by ProtectOurFreedom (“Occupy your mind with good thoughts or your enemy will fill them with bad ones.” ~ Thomas More)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

palis live in brown houses anyway so what’s the difference? oh....the smell.


31 posted on 03/07/2024 1:03:24 PM PST by Qwapisking ("IF the Second goes first the First goes second" L.Star )
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To: nickcarraway

All the Gen Zeros will need to feed them in their 15 minute villages is bug hatcheries and algae farms


32 posted on 03/07/2024 1:06:03 PM PST by antidemoncrat
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To: ansel12

who needs farms when the grocery store is only a mile away?


33 posted on 03/07/2024 1:06:56 PM PST by Qwapisking ("IF the Second goes first the First goes second" L.Star )
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To: rod5591

Farming is not just an activity but is also a way of life that is best learned by being raised in it. Sadly, the lives and accomplishments of black farmers are little celebrated in black culture.


34 posted on 03/07/2024 1:07:34 PM PST by Rockingham (`)
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To: packagingguy

I saw that interview. I think they also asked an official how the electricity was generated and he had to admit it came from fossil fuels. (I can’t recall, but he may also have mentioned nuclear.)


35 posted on 03/07/2024 1:14:24 PM PST by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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To: nickcarraway
I did farmwork when I was in school and realized it wasn't something I wanted to do my whole life. Not knocking farmers, still good friends with many but it just wasn't for me.
The problem with the elitist mentality is that it sees every occupation, business, organization as something that needs to adhere to DEI or not exist at all.
36 posted on 03/07/2024 1:20:50 PM PST by 100%FEDUP
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To: 100%FEDUP

They want Soviet-Style Collective Farms.


37 posted on 03/07/2024 1:24:50 PM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: nickcarraway

You vill eat zi bugs 🐜 🐛 🐞 and love it!


38 posted on 03/07/2024 1:45:06 PM PST by Jan_Sobieski (Sanctification)
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To: rod5591

I don’t think you are getting it....

The farms will be owned by corporations and worked by invader/slaves.


39 posted on 03/07/2024 1:55:13 PM PST by nitzy (I wonder if the telescreens in 1984 were first called "free Obamascreens")
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To: nickcarraway

” More than 150,000 farms and ranches use renewable energy”

When you give free stuff to anyone they take it. I would have “renewable” energy if someone else paid for it.


40 posted on 03/07/2024 2:21:30 PM PST by Organic Panic (Democrats. Memories as short as Joe Biden's eyes.)
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