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Economy

Bayard

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1. Young people don't want to farm anymore

Reply to mahatmakanejeeves (Original post)

Thu Oct 12, 2023, 03:37 PM

Oct 2023

Its damn hard work, up before sunrise, and often long after dark. There's hardly any family farms anymore, with the big corporations taking them over.

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Young people don't want to farm anymore Bayard Oct 2023 #1