Beginning farmers: How the financial picture has changed since your parents started farming

Beginning farmers: How the financial picture has changed since your parents started farming

Several financial factors are changing as new generations try their hand at farming.

Naturally young and beginning farmers turn to their parents and grandparents for farm financial advice, and while they are qualified mentors, Paul Stoddard with the University of Illinois encourages both generations to consider how dramatically the financial picture has changed.

“The first item is we are in a period of increasing inflation, which we haven’t had in 40 years.