A farm manager from Wisconsin says he has seen the challenges facing young and beginning farmers firsthand.
Matthew Keesling said he had difficulty securing a beginning farmer loan.
“With all of the areas that I thought I had qualifications in— veteran status, being a beginning farmer, years of management experience in the military, and education from both a university and through an apprenticeship program— nothing translated to agriculture and dairy so I would have to go find a job and work in a management position for three years before I could be seen as an acceptable risk to the FSA,” he says.
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