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This podcast can be great if you are already working in the field, whether you are in a tractor or picking vegetables in a high tunnel.

All your favorite summer veggies are growing making them targets for a variety of pests who can make short work of a crop.

>> reporter: it's not lack of interest. young people just don't have the start-up money needed. the usda says the average income from a new farm in 2009 was minus $8,000. >> joe really is the future of farming. >> reporter: joe paid $240 a year to be part of this program and took an eight-week course to learn farming basics, like planting, but also how to run a farm as a business. >> have to turn this water back on here in a minute. >> reporter: the incubator farmers graduate to plots of land where they can practice the lessons of the classroom. >> where does somebody test the waters when you ...