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Young Farmers Don't Need Taxpayers' Help
The country has all the farmers it needs.
Productivity personified.
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U.S. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack recites the same lament when he is asked to size up the state of American farming. Things are dandy, but a crisis is looming because farmers are old and getting older all the time.
He usually ends with a question about who will replace them, as he did again last week at a speech at the annual James Beard Foundation Food Conference.