The BLS lists a typical education for a farmer as a high school diploma. https://www.bls.gov/ooh/management/mobile/farmers-ranchers-and-other-agricultural-mana

The BLS lists a typical education for a farmer as a high school diploma. https://www.bls.gov/ooh/management/mobile/farmers-ranchers-and-other-agricultural-managers.htm https://www.bls.gov/ooh/management/mobile/farmers-ranchers-a... It's not that farmers are particularly uneducated as a class of people. It's that they run complex businesses relative to their formal education. A minority of people finish college, but only a small number of high school graduates are farmers. Most who become farmers learn the job by growing up on a farm.