Shake, RattleAND GROW:Young farmer bootstraps road to agriculture

摘要

First-generation farmers face an inescapable imperative out of the gate: Take land or equipment nobody else wants. In 2012, at age 18, Cason Anderson had no productive acres, few family connections and no equipment.But driven by desire to make a mark in agriculture, he knocked on doors, hopefulto gain a farming toehold by scavenging tiny bits of neglected ground. Simply, Anderson picked from below the bottom of the pile.Today the bootstrap farmer covers 840 acres of pecan trees and maneuvers his operation through a hornet's nest of market pitfalls.