It’s official: Farming is an ageing occupation—with voices in the industry saying Britain “desperately” needs more youngsters to choose it as a career, raising questions about who will produce the nation’s food in the future, and how.
Experts say that despite the appeal of new working practices to the younger generation, around 40 percent of farmers are 65 or older in the UK, with 59 the average age.
The challenges for any new farmer in Britain are significant.
“You need to have a lot of money in land and equipment,” Professor Lee-Ann Sutherland of the James Hutton Institute told The Epoch Times. “And there are two obvious ways to get it—you inherit it or are independently wealthy.”…