Farmers Wanted

A series about the challenge of cultivating a new generation of farmers in Pennsylvania by 90.5 WESA’s An-Li Herring.

Want to Start a Farm? Good Luck Finding Land

An-Li HerringJuly 1, 2022

Finding land is the number one challenge farmers are facing and number one reason young farmers are leaving agriculture.

EconomyFood and Agriculture

Pennsylvania farmers are aging, creating an uncertain future for their communities and industry

An-Li HerringJuly 1, 2022

By 2027, 75,000 jobs in agriculture in Pa. are expected to go unfilled. That will have profound effects on farming communities across the Commonwealth.

EconomyFood and Agriculture

Farming is grueling work, but a Pittsburgh startup is using technology to make it easier

An-Li HerringJune 24, 2022

The agricultural industry is struggling to sell young people farming. But technology may be changing that.

Food and Agriculture

1% of Pennsylvania farmers are people of color. Changing that could help solve an ag labor shortage

An-Li HerringJanuary 14, 2022

Most of Pennsylvania's farmers are white. But efforts are underway to bring more people of color into farming.

EconomyEnvironmental JusticeFood and Agriculture

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Farmers Wanted

Want to Start a Farm? Good Luck Finding Land

Pennsylvania farmers are aging, creating an uncertain future for their communities and industry

Farming is grueling work, but a Pittsburgh startup is using technology to make it easier

1% of Pennsylvania farmers are people of color. Changing that could help solve an ag labor shortage