Beginning Farmer Issues Newsworthy

July is off to a great start, with mention of the Center for Rural Affairs in two prominent national Associated Press articles on beginning farmer issues.

Older farmers changing agriculture, rural communities
Boston Globe - United States - ... if family farms consolidate and rural population drops, said Chuck Hassebrook, executive director of the Center for Rural Affairs in Lyons, Neb. ...

Young People Struggle to Find Farms
Forbes - NY,USA - ... in large part, on reversing that trend," said Traci Bruckner, assistant director of rural policy for the Center for Rural Affairs, based in Lyons, Neb. ...

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