Perdue Stresses the Importance Of Speaking To Next Generation

Ag Secretary Sonny Perdue says it's important for the industry to encourage young people to become farmers and ranchers.  During a recent trip to the Buckeye State, he noted how impressed he was with Ohio's Central State University.

"The university is about problem solving, really. And to come to a place like this, Central State University, a land-grant University, we have a definitive relationship between our land-grant universities and the United States Department of Agriculture that would help us have a partnership here."

Perdue said it's important to USDA to take a role, financially, educationally and emotionally, since farmers aren't getting any younger.

"We're almost at the 60-years-old average now, so, we need to have young people coming along to make sure that we never have a famine in the United States of young people who want to participate in agriculture."

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