In the vein of What is a small farmer, Yes magazine has a short profile of a series of new young farmers

Time to dredge up the past again. There’s been another surge of interest by several Oregon farmers to get into growing some of their own grain for feed. No wonder, as feed prices have more than doubled since we started doing chickens, and while the commodity insanity of the last year is taking [...]

To hear Senator Pat Roberts (R Kansas) tell it, a small family farmer:
is about 5′2″…and he’s a retired airline pilot and sits on his porch on a glider reading Gentleman’s Quarterly — he used to read the Wall Street Journal but that got pretty drab — and his wife works as stock broker downtown. And [...]