When you ask most young boys and girls what they want to do when they grow up, you will be hard pressed to find one that wants to be a farmer. That wouldn’t be true fifty or one hundred years ago, but it is true today. There are many reasons that most children do not grow up with intentions of being a farmer, but probably the single biggest factor in their choice comes from what they see their parents doing.
As the number of farms and hence farmers has decreased steadily in our country, it only makes sense that fewer and fewer children and teens are being raised with a desire to be a farmer themselves. There are, after all, a wide variety of professions that are far more exciting and that pay far more money than being a farmer.
I did, however, meet one young boy whose life ambition was to be a farmer. When I asked him about it, he simply answered that he wanted to be a farmer because he loves being outside and he loves helping people get food. I thought this was quite a profoundly simple answer. I asked if he knew anyone that was a farmer and he replied that he didn’t. He said that he read about being a farmer in a book at school and that he figured it...
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