"Conditions are very hard, " Charles Le Maistre, the chairman of Jersey's Young Farmers Club, said.
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More successful, or at least more sustainable, have been government efforts to boost young farmers.
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Many young farmers facing land scarcity and the effects of climate change lack even basic skills needed to protect themselves and stay afloat.
Many young farmers facing land scarcity and the effects of climate change, lack even basic skills needed to protect themselves and make ends meet.
Nebraska has tax credits for landowners who rent to young farmers.
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Farmers Union Wales, National Farmers Union, the Tenants Famers Association and the Young Farmers Club all agreed that there was a "significant demand" for council farms across Wales.
The Farmers' Union of Wales (FUW), the Campaign for the Protection of Rural Wales, Wales Young Farmers' Clubs, Welsh language women's group Merched y Wawr and the Women's Institute all support the campaign.
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In Georgia I taught agriculture at the Junior High and high school levels and served as Advisor to a local FFA Chapter and worked with the local Young Farmers of America Chapter (YFA) as well.
The story of the city cow houses - run by young farmers who moved from their family farms in Yorkshire to Liverpool - is told in a new book, Urban Cowboys, by Cheshire author Duncan Scott.
Graham Kerr from the Scottish Agricultural College, Stuart Goodall of Confor, Jim Simmons, Northern Region of Scotland, New Entrants Group and Andrew Hannah from the Dumfries and Galloway District Association of Young Farmers Clubs also took part.
Farming unions and the HSE have targeted farmers previously, but Mr Bailey said NFU Cymru's latest campaign included organisations from across the Welsh farming industry, including the Farmers' Union of Wales, Wales Young Farmers' Club, the Welsh Government and the Royal Agricultural Benevolent Institution.
Other issues raised included greening, with the EC proposing that 30% of direct payments should be used specifically for agricultural practices benefiting the climate and the environment, young farmers and capping of payments for an individual farm at a maximum limit of 300, 000 per year.
Young smallholder farmers need skills training to protect their crops against climate change, and cope with increasing land scarcity.
Three swaggering young Rhineland farmers, on their way to a country dance, turn round to be photographed complete with their hats and canes, one of them dangling a cigarette between his lips.
This year, the visiting ranchers are preoccupied by the beef industry's informal pessimism index the share of young cows that farmers slaughter for meat rather than keep for breeding.
Richard Young, from the Original Farmers Market Shop, said the shop in question had been empty for two years and no-one wanted to fill it.
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Later, farmers reported damage to young crops after "cover crops" - designed to protect them from the elements - were blown away.
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But yesterday I found out about corporate sponsorship at Farm Aid, an organization that supports family farmers and that Neil Young helped to found.
And like most farmers, he has seen too many friends die young.
Rolando, a young infantryman in our area of responsibility, won over local farmers by spontaneously shedding his equipment and helping them dig irrigation ditches one day while on patrol.
By 2050, there will be an estimated nine billion people on the planet, and farmers will need to produce larger yields, said Young Kim, general manager of Bosh Precision Agriculture.
He said there were signs people were starting to consider jobs in agriculture as the recession took hold and farmers were keen to promote farming careers to students and young people but that would take "many years to bear fruit".
Back on his Pretoria farm, Mr Mokwene hopes his poultry business will still be around to support his two young children when they are older but he says this will not be possible if local farmers are not protected.
In five years more young voters may be swayed by Prabowo's brand of secular nationalism and his championing of farmers and fishermen.
The countryside is becoming a place for the very old or the very young, and no one in the Tang family wants their children to grow up to be farmers.
One young entrepreneur is Susan Eve Oguya, eagerly telling me about her SMS or text service for Kenyan farmers, MFarm.
And farmers are ageing (the average British farmer is now well into his 50s), with few young people keen to enter a hard, uncertain business.
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