Mon 9 AM | The business of attracting military veterans and other recruits to agriculture

On this Veterans Day 2024, please enjoy an encore presentation of our Veterans Agripreneurs conversation, hosted by Geoffrey Riley.

The business of attracting veterans to agriculture industries and farming can be a challenging line of work on its best days, so it doesn’t have the allure of being an “influencer” on social media. And while the tech industry attracts young innovators, farming still skews much older. And many existing farmers are due for retirement.

Efforts continue around the country to attract new farmers to the business, including several small farm incubation projects in Southern Oregon. Those include Rogue Farm Corps and the Growing Veteran Agripreneurs program of Oregon State University Extension. We get a peek inside these programs when GVA Coordinator Diane Choplin visits. There are also two other guests: Edward Night of Oak Mountain Farm and a Farm Corps alum, and Greg Pavellas, an alum of GVA.

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Farming can be a challenging line of work on its best days, so it doesn’t have the allure of say, being an “influencer” on social media. And where that line of work skews young, farming skews much older, and many farmers are due for retirement.

So efforts continue around the country to attract new farmers to the business, including several small farm incubation projects in Southern Oregon. Those include Rogue Farm Corps and the Growing Veteran Agripreneurs program of Oregon State University Extension.

We get a peek inside these programs when GVA Coordinator Diane Choplin visits. There are two other guests: Edward Night of Oak Mountain Farm and a Farm Corps alum, and Greg Pavellas, an alum of GVA.

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