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Can small farms survive in the era of 'Big Ag'?

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Mar 03, 2020 at 08:28 AM CST - 1
To Thompson, ensuring today's farmers have access to lending programs like the one that helped him start his own farm more than 30 years ago is vital. "We need a way to provide for them to do that," he said. "Not just the trust fund kids, we need real, hard-working mountain kids who come through the ag program to but land, or inherit land, if they have family land, to be able to use that land to make a living."

Mar 03, 2020 at 08:28 AM CST

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To Thompson, ensuring today's farmers have access to lending programs like the one that helped him start his own farm more than 30 years ago is vital. "We need a way to provide for them to do that," he said. "Not just the trust fund kids, we need real, hard-working mountain kids who come through the ag program to but land, or inherit land, if they have family land, to be able to use that land to make a living."