'Farmers for America' documentary addresses aging of average farmer - Entrepreneur Generations

A new documentary, "Farmers for America", addresses big changes coming to the nations' food growing, distribution and consumption systems, and how America's farmers are addressing them.

Farmers face changing consumer demands as more people shop at farmer's markets, commit to eating more local food, and try to learn more about where their food comes from. Meanwhile, the face of farming is changing: the average age of a U.S. farmer is almost 60, which means half of America's farmland will change hands in the next 12 years, Mary Alford reports for The News-Enterprise in Elizabethtown, Ky.

After a screening of the film earlier this week, Elizabethtown farmers held a panel discussion. "I will tell you, everything that has happened in the movie has happened in Kentucky. I see it every day as I travel the state," said Warren Beeler, moderator of the panel discussion.

Caleb Ragland, who grows corn, soybeans and winter wheat along with his hog farm, said the film's assessment of the declining number of farmers was accurate. "There are less of us that need to produce more. We have to teach the kids," Ragland said, "We have to learn from the generations. We have to be paying attention, learning how to preserve our land."

For more information about the documentary, click here.

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