Southeast Minnesota farmers are growing older and staying put
Southeast Minnesota farmers are growing older and staying put Living your remaining days on the farm is more difficult today than in years past, and a bubble of aging farmers are finding out why. 6:00 am, Apr. 1, 2021 × Retired Zumbrota farmer Bill Budensiek still lives on the land he has farmed for decades. Although the cattle are gone he still checks on things and mows hay with the machinery he has left. March 10, 2021. (Ken Klotzbach / kklotzbach@postbulletin.com) ZUMBROTA — J.D. Haas has asked older farmers what they want, and the answer seems to be unanimous. "S...
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