More Young People Are Becoming Farmers (axios.com)

An anonymous reader shares a report: "For only the second time in the last century, the number of farmers under 35 years old is increasing, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture's latest Census of Agriculture," the WashPost's Caitlin Downey reports in a front-pager with the lovely headline, "A growing movement." 69% of the surveyed young farmers had college degrees -- significantly higher than the general population.

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[Theaetetus]

Facing Rising Unemployment, Young People Return to Subsistence Living

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[zifn4b]

Facing Rising Unemployment, Young People Return to Subsistence Living

It's ironic isn't is? During the Industrial Revolution, industrial tycoons had difficulty convincing people in rural communities to come work in factories. They had to compel them with competitive wages. Now the corporate universe keeps trying to use psychological tricks to get us to digest more and more bullshit reasons to work more for less wages and now it's sparked a trend of fleeing the post-industrial world back to rural communities. The big difference between rural work and corporate work is that you, the individual, reap the rewards of rural work while in the corporate world, it's the Board of Directors that reaps most of the benefits. It's no surprise why people would be compelled to move back to rural communities.

Not your fathers farming.

[jellomizer]

Modern Farming is often more Technically advanced then many of these so called Tech jobs. Automated Robotic Systems, Big data collections, Bio and Chemical Engineering... Farmer Brown needs to be just as Apt in front of a computer as he does with a pitchfork.

Farming may be tough work, but it is challenging hands on career that for some people is very reward. Me growing up on a Farm, it is the furthest thing I would like to do, but for others it is a good rewarding job.

With the rise in interest of more natural farming, and locally sourced food etc... It would make sense that a renewed interest in farming is becoming more popular. Besides a lot of people think we are going to hit some big disaster that will knock us to the dark ages, so being a farmer is a good place to be.

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[Anonymous Coward]

Yeah yeah yeah the governement is incompetent corporations are evil bla bla bla. Heard this all before a million times.

There's a huge difference between acquiring skills and becoming self sufficient on one side (good thing) and becoming a paranoid para-military prepper on the other (bad thing)

Must really suck to view everything as a threat and everyone as an ennemy. That's not the kind of life I want to live. But that doesn't mean I'm delusional either.

I really do hope our country gets back to the principles it was founded on

Not with that attitude it won't. Countries don't simply "fix" themselves while their citizens retreat to their bunkers cutting themselves off from the world. Do you know what "countries" are ? People. Tired of incompetent governements ? Stop electing incompetent people. Tired of evil corporations ? Stop giving them freely and wilingly your money. Presidents and CEO's are just people too, picked from the pool of the general population.

As a great man once said, ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country. Educate sourselves. Get involved. Become more knowledgeable, smarter, wiser, more mature, more rational. People do get the kind of governement (and corporations) they deserve. Become a people worthy of the kind of governement you demand.