Access to land and the ability to purchase it is a huge barrier to entering farming, according to a new survey. Those barriers have created a more dire situation as the average age of a farmer has been steadily increasing over the past few decades.
and analyzed by the University of Wisconsin Survey Center. According to the survey, 59% of young farmers named finding affordable land to buy as very or extremely challenging, and 45% of young farmers named finding available land to buy as very or extremely challenging. The rates were higher — 68% — among farmers of color.
Sabrina Pilet-Jones with the Urban Farming Institute reaches for a carton of broccoli for a customer at a Boston farm stand on Aug. 14, 2020.The pandemic highlighted the need for local and regional food sources Supply chain snags led to empty shelves during the pandemic, like at this Whole Foods produce department in Vauxhall, N.J., in March 2020. Some people turned to local markets and sellers to purchase foods they couldn't find at the grocery store."During the pandemic, when food access was tight, people were like, 'We want to buy local food. We want to support our farmers and community-supported agriculture,'" Noordijk said.
Zach Ducheneaux, administrator for USDA's Farm Service Agency, the lending arm of the department, told NPR that he knows loan applications can be so lengthy and complicated that prospective farmers can give up. A sign tells shoppers to stand 6 feet back and not to touch the produce at a farmers market in San Rafael, Calif., in March 2020. Fearful of close-quarters in packed supermarkets that had empty shelves, many shoppers descended on farmers markets they rarely visited in the past.
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