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The Future Farmers of France Are Tech Savvy, and Want Weekends Off
- rmason 5y agoI feel like I should point out that the average American farmer's age is ten years older than France's. In America the average farm is just getting larger as a result. This is simply something that France does not want, but I am not sure they can avoid. Most of farming is a low margin capital intensive business. You can start from scratch and bootstrap your way in but you need to start from a niche with a high margin crop and be extremely capitally efficient. Growing organic vegetables, mushrooms or flowers. I've known people who raised calves for larger farmers, contributing labor and feed for a set price. You need to be extremely creative. I know a farmer locally who came as an immigrant who started in a community garden raising vegetables that were not available locally. He now owns a farm and equipment, but still has to quit his day job as a janitor.