Boosting young farmers

    HARDIN COUNTY – For the last three years, a Hardin County couple have played a big role in an Iowa Farm Bureau initiative to recruit and encourage young farmers – farmers trying to break into a field where ‘young’ is no longer the rule.
    Here in Iowa, the state agriculture picture has farms consolidating into fewer and larger operations and the average farmer advancing into senior citizen territory. (Read it all in Friday's Index)