What can government do to encourage graduates to go into farming?

Question

What can government do to encourage graduates to go into farming?

Answer 1

this isnt really an answer as much as a comment to think about.  I am from a small farm town and everybody i know moved out of that town and moved to the city because there isn't enough women in small farm communities and the ones that are there are usually related to you somehow like cousins and junk.  So the real question would be how would you get more women to move to small farm communties.  Sorry if i offended anyone.

Answer 2

Farming as in the act of and leasing land or farming owned land? Property tax decreases would help along with more freedom to plant crops beyond the typical soybean/corn wheat restraint. Farmers often can't get grants to practice the type of farming they would like because of corporate money being tied into traditional agriculture.

Answer 3

Lol,...what ever your smoking, I'd like to try.

Answer 4

giving free incentives, financial assistance, etc.

Answer 5

Quit DIScouraging them!  I can only speak to conditions in the US, but they're applicable elsewhere. First, you need solid rights of land ownership...which includes no confiscatory inheritance taxes, restrictions on land use (unless it harms the neighbors), and certainly no land theft like in Zimbabwe. Then you need the freedom to direct-market agricultural products, esp. value-added items. This is sadly lacking in the US. Third, get rid of all managed trade systems. the only thing wrong with US ag policy is that we have one.

Answer 6

The main thing keeping graduates from returning to the farm is that the inheritance taxes are often prohibitive to them being able keep the farm when it is turned over to them through the death of the father. Eliminating this inheritance tax would get a lot more graduates back on the farm. It has practically eliminated the family farm.

Answer 7

provide free land +grants +education .