Future of Family Farms at Risk – AGING FARMERS, LACK OF SUCCESSION PLANS PUT FUTURE IN DOUBT

July 17, 2017 By
  • Lethbridge Herald
  • Jessica Smith Cross THE CANADIAN PRESS
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Bryan Maynard, a co-owner of Farmboys Inc., along with his brother Kyle, is seen in one of their potato fields in Richmond, Prince Edward Island. Maynard is calling on families to talk about the future of their farms.

A growing number of farmers are nearing retirement without having formally planned for their successors, putting the next generation of smallscale farming at risk

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