{"id":8749,"date":"2015-06-11T11:28:00","date_gmt":"2015-06-11T18:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/plantingseedsblog.cdfa.ca.gov\/wordpress\/?p=8749"},"modified":"2015-06-11T11:28:00","modified_gmt":"2015-06-11T18:28:00","slug":"create-farmers-york-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/plantingseedsblog.cdfa.ca.gov\/wordpress\/index.php\/2015\/06\/11\/create-farmers-york-times\/","title":{"rendered":"Let&#8217;s Help Create More Farmers: from the New York Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/plantingseedsblog.cdfa.ca.gov\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/fsa-young.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-8751\" alt=\"fsa-young\" src=\"http:\/\/plantingseedsblog.cdfa.ca.gov\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/fsa-young.jpg\" width=\"390\" height=\"220\" srcset=\"https:\/\/plantingseedsblog.cdfa.ca.gov\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/fsa-young.jpg 390w, https:\/\/plantingseedsblog.cdfa.ca.gov\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/fsa-young-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 390px) 100vw, 390px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>By Mark Bittman<\/strong><\/p>\n<p id=\"story-continues-1\" itemprop=\"articleBody\" data-para-count=\"247\" data-total-count=\"247\">Just about everyone agrees that we need more farmers. Currently, nearly 30 percent are 65 or older, and fewer than 10 percent are under 35. The number of farmers is likely to fall further with continuing consolidation and technological innovation.<\/p>\n<p itemprop=\"articleBody\" data-para-count=\"248\" data-total-count=\"495\">But displacement of farmers is neither desirable nor inevitable. We need to put more young people on smaller farms, the kinds that will grow nourishing food for people instead of food that sickens us or yields products intended for animals or cars.<\/p>\n<p itemprop=\"articleBody\" data-para-count=\"364\" data-total-count=\"859\">The problem is land, which is often prohibitively expensive. Farmland near cities is prized by developers and the wealthy looking for vacation homes, hobby farms or secure investments. Many farmers have no choice but to rent land for a year or two before being asked to move and start all over, because the purchase of even the smallest plot is out of their reach.<\/p>\n<p itemprop=\"articleBody\" data-para-count=\"341\" data-total-count=\"1200\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.albafarmers.org\/\">There are credible efforts<\/a>\u00a0to provide farmworkers new opportunities, like\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youngfarmers.org\/reports\/conservation2.0.pdf\">land trusts for preserving farmland.<\/a>\u00a0There are also dozens of\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.fsa.usda.gov\/Internet\/FSA_File\/fsa_br_01_web_booklet.pdf\">federal<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.hesc.ny.gov\/pay-for-college\/financial-aid\/types-of-financial-aid\/nys-grants-scholarships-awards\/new-york-state-young-farmers-loan-forgiveness-incentive-program.html\">state programs<\/a>\u00a0aimed at helping farmers get started, as well as farm business incubators like the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.glynwood.org\/farm-business-incubator\/\">one run by Glynwood<\/a>\u00a0in the Hudson River Valley. But the barriers to obtaining land remain high.<\/p>\n<p itemprop=\"articleBody\" data-para-count=\"333\" data-total-count=\"1533\">A new bill proposed by Representatives Joe Courtney, a Connecticut Democrat, and Chris Gibson, a New York Republican, and devised with input from the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youngfarmers.org\/\">National Young Farmers Coalition,<\/a>\u00a0would improve the situation by forgiving the balance of\u00a0<a title=\"More articles about student loans.\" href=\"http:\/\/topics.nytimes.com\/top\/reference\/timestopics\/subjects\/s\/student_loans\/index.html?inline=nyt-classifier\">student loans<\/a>\u00a0of those who spent 10 years as farmers and made loan payments during that time.<\/p>\n<p itemprop=\"articleBody\" data-para-count=\"276\" data-total-count=\"1809\">The bill would add farmers to the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/studentaid.ed.gov\/sa\/sites\/default\/files\/public-service-loan-forgiveness.pdf\">Public Service Loan Forgiveness Program<\/a>, which already forgives student loans for police officers, prosecutors, nurses and others, so perhaps its best aspect is the cultural shift it represents, grouping farmers with others in public service.<\/p>\n<p id=\"story-continues-2\" itemprop=\"articleBody\" data-para-count=\"444\" data-total-count=\"2253\">\u201cConceptually, this isn\u2019t radical or symbolic,\u201d says Courtney. \u201cIt\u2019s recognizing a huge work force need.\u201d And, as Gibson says, it addresses megafarming: \u201cIn the five years from 2007 to 2012 we only gained a little over 1,200 farmers. Since we aren\u2019t going to stop eating, we have to reverse that trend, or we\u2019ll see even more consolidation, more corporate farms, or increasing food imports; none of that is in our interest.\u201d<\/p>\n<p itemprop=\"articleBody\" data-para-count=\"413\" data-total-count=\"2666\">All of this is true. And arguing against a bill like this would be counterproductive. But there are a couple of immediate objections here. The first is that the program is only focused on helping people who\u2019ve gone to college, a particular slice of the American pie that skews white and well off. (There is of course the obvious question of why we can\u2019t provide free college education to anyone who wants it.)<\/p>\n<p id=\"story-continues-3\" itemprop=\"articleBody\" data-para-count=\"224\" data-total-count=\"2890\">Second, the terms seem onerous: It\u2019s difficult enough to make a living farming, especially when starting out. Why not (as some state programs do) forgive the loan after a couple of years, with an agreement to keep farming?<\/p>\n<p itemprop=\"articleBody\" data-para-count=\"224\" data-total-count=\"2890\">\u201cIt\u2019s a step in the right direction, but it\u2019s not transformative,\u201d says Blain Snipstal, an ecological farmer on Maryland\u2019s Eastern Shore and a member of the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.saafon.org\/\">Southeastern African-American Farmers\u2019 Organic Network<\/a>. As everyone knows, it\u2019s difficult to pass anything creative and progressive in Washington right now, so seeing this bill through would be positive movement.<\/p>\n<p id=\"story-continues-5\" itemprop=\"articleBody\" data-para-count=\"286\" data-total-count=\"3559\">Still: The question of getting land into the hands of all who want and deserve it has been plaguing the United States since Reconstruction, when President Andrew Johnson rejected every effort to compensate former slaves with land. Remember \u201c40 acres and a mule\u201d? It didn\u2019t happen.<\/p>\n<p id=\"story-continues-6\" itemprop=\"articleBody\" data-para-count=\"345\" data-total-count=\"3904\">Farming is \u2014 or should be \u2014 a social enterprise as much as a business, one that benefits all of us and uses the land conscientiously and ecologically. Thus in the long run we\u2019ve got to expand our vision to include some kind of land redistribution that would give those who want to work the land for our mutual benefit the ability to do so.<\/p>\n<p itemprop=\"articleBody\" data-para-count=\"289\" data-total-count=\"4193\">Let\u2019s remember that much of \u201cour\u201d land was acquired though the displacement and murder of millions of Native Americans, and that it was made productive by enslaved, indentured and undervalued labor; providing farming opportunities to more people would partially redress those issues.<\/p>\n<p itemprop=\"articleBody\" data-para-count=\"222\" data-total-count=\"4415\">We can continue to pretend that megafarmers who produce for export and nonfood purposes\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/roablog.com\/blog\/2015\/06\/05\/get-big-or-get-out\/\">need public support<\/a>, or we can create new policies that invest in a better kind of farming \u2014 and lots of new farmers eager to do it.<\/p>\n<p itemprop=\"articleBody\" data-para-count=\"222\" data-total-count=\"4415\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2015\/06\/10\/opinion\/lets-help-create-more-farmers.html?_r=0\">Link to article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Mark Bittman Just about everyone agrees that we need more farmers. Currently, nearly 30 percent are 65 or older, and fewer than 10 percent are under 35. The number of farmers is likely to fall further with continuing consolidation &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/plantingseedsblog.cdfa.ca.gov\/wordpress\/index.php\/2015\/06\/11\/create-farmers-york-times\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8749","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\r\n<title>Let&#039;s Help Create More Farmers: from the New York Times  - CDFA&#039;s Planting Seeds Blog<\/title>\r\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\r\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/plantingseedsblog.cdfa.ca.gov\/wordpress\/index.php\/2015\/06\/11\/create-farmers-york-times\/\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Let&#039;s Help Create More Farmers: from the New York Times  - CDFA&#039;s Planting Seeds Blog\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"By Mark Bittman Just about everyone agrees that we need more farmers. 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