Agriculture is a sexy business

Nowadays a profession needs to be sexy or it is not attractive to the young. Having said that, I believe agriculture is a sexy business. With today’s shrinking rural population, fewer and fewer people get the opportunity to grow up on a farm. Even fewer choose agriculture as an educational challenge or a working destination. When I was studying at Agriculture University (in the late seventies) there were two camps: farmer sons and ‘concrete farmers’ referring to students that did not com