I WAS AT one of the larger agricultural conferences in Maryland recently, and I found myself in a discussion with several other people about some of theemerging ag industries in the state.We talked about hemp, oysters, cheese 1 creameries and a few other things. IBut then the discussion shifted, and we : started talking about some of the newer ! members to our ag world: beginning farmers (young or old), urban-turned-rural folks, second careerists who fled the city for another life, students fresh from college whowanted to farm, and others.And the conversational flow seemed to group these individuals into roughly three categories.
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