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SC Ag Commissioner Hugh Weathers on Aging Farmers

  Program 7902  (download mp3)
  Posted on Tue, Apr 24, 2012


South Carolina's Ag Commissioner is aware of the aging of farmers....SC's average age of a farmer is more than 60 years now.  Fueled by Deputy Ag Secretary Kathleen Merrigan's  mission, fuelded by a blog posting that put agriculture at Number 1 on a list of 'useless' college degrees.  Truth is there isn't enough people graduating from universities to fill open ag positions across the country. 

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