How old?

[Riley]

We often hear how the average age of farmers today keeps rising as it becomes increasingly difficult to entice young people into an industry that offers narrow profit margins (at best)and hard work. I know this can be a sensitive subject but it would be interesting to know the age of the people who post on this board and what branch of agriculture they are currently engaged. As for me....I'm 52 and in the grain biz.

P.S. In my neighbourhood they are very few that are much younger than I am.

[wilagro]

I'm over 69 and in the 'pension' business.

Cheers!!

[Smithy]

I am 50 and my husband is 51. We have a cow calf operation and sheep.

[ivbinconned]

54...cattle, grain, custom combing, metal fabricating, welding, trailer repair, sell parts,large equipment operater, and lover...of grandkids!

O ya...and a promoter of personal liberty and responsability.

[dolin]

52 old grow oat from quebec and in my area, most farmers are youngers

[Horse]

60 and at best I am semi retired as I dont see anything worth investing in to do with agri Enjoying hunting fishing and driving my teams . Have 2 daughters but they arnt into farming only 3or4 farmers younger than me and they have oil jobs

[Horse]

The average age of the cattle producers in this area is 65 . There area a couple of younger fellows that are 55 and one kid that is 45 !!!

[dalek]

I'm 30, in dairy, crash crops (corn/winter wheat/soy), custom baling/wrapping/spraying etc., and forestry.

[cowman]

I'm 50 and the boy is 29. There are very few young farmers in our area. We run a cow/calf operation, rent out a couple of hundred acres to a cousin for grain, and do a modest hay acreage for the horse trade. I basically have given my son the land/cattle in a registered joint venture. This is how we are doing the succession plan.
We also have varied oil field interests that are in fact our bread and butter...again in another limited joint venture.
And finally I have another deal with a seperate partner in a food concession business.
Have an extremely well equipped shop where we service all our equipment and do some fabrication.
Am a self appointed philosopher, although no one seems to want to pay me! LOL

[carebear300]

I'm 53 years old and farm in a partnership with my brother who is 50 years old. We farm a fair little bit of farmland andd have 50 cows to take care of some of our wasteland. We are sort of the normal for age of farmers in our area we all sort of got the bug to start farming about the same time. One farmer ten years younger in the area.

[blackjack]

...i am 43 and a 2nd generation farmer/rancher ...there are some other 40 something next generation farms in the area as well as the newcomers that are in the intensive type farming... i am just guessing but i would think 3/4s of the grain land is owned by landlords over the age of 60 that is rented out...

[countryguy]

I am 29 and have been holding there for 2 years LOL,which I guess in reality makes me 31.Farm with my 58 year old father.

We crop up to 3500 acres depending on the year and have a 100 head and growing holistically raised June calving cowherd.Our main annual crops are wheat,canola,flax,oats,hemp and ryegrass and have grown other crops such as mustard and canaryseed when the market calls for it.We also grow some timothy for seed.All of our calves are backgrounded on grass.We also have some land suitable for tourism or outfitting that we are currently looking in to.

This area has lots of young farmers,too many in fact.This has a negative effect on the land prices,both purchased and rented.

[wilb]

Mid 40's. More than half my neighbours are younger than me and all want to expand (as soon as the price of land comes down!)

[ivbinconned]

We live in Saskatchewan were we are waiting for land prices to go UP...so we can retire!

[sawfly]

47 a partner and i farm 4400 acres grains
. no one fights over renting land here. its more like (hey you rent it,)
its mostly my age and up.