Hearing: Supporting the Next Generation of Agricultural Businesses

Subcommittee on Rural Development, Agriculture, Trade, and Entrepreneurship (Committee on Small Business)

Thursday, July 25, 2019 (10:00 AM)

2360 RHOB
Washington, D.C.
A focus of the subcommittee is to increase the economic development of rural areas of the country. The hearing will discuss the challenges the nation’s younger generation faces in rural areas, particularly in the agricultural industry. America’s farmers are getting older, with the average age of 58 years old. As older farmers look to retire or transition away from the business of farming, new farmers are presented with opportunities and difficult challenges. This hearing is designed to enable Members to have a dialogue about the problems and the potential solutions within the rural agricultural industry as it pertains to beginning farmers and younger entrepreneurs.

Witnesses

Mr. Matthew Keesling
Farm Manager, Bures' Organic Family Farm, Deerbrook, WI, on behalf of the Dairy Grazing Apprenticeship

  • Witness Statement [PDF] Added 07/29/2019 at 12:26 PM
  • Truth in Testimony Attachment [PDF] Added 07/29/2019 at 12:26 PM
  • Truth in Testimony Attachment #2 [PDF] Added 07/29/2019 at 12:26 PM
  • Witness Truth in Testimony [PDF] Added 07/29/2019 at 12:26 PM
  • Witness Biography [PDF] Added 07/29/2019 at 12:26 PM

Mr. Jason Grimm
Owner, Grimm Family Farm, Williamsburg, IA, on behalf of the National Young Farmers Coalition and the Eastern Iowa Young Farmers Coalition

  • Witness Statement [PDF] Added 07/29/2019 at 12:26 PM
  • Witness Truth in Testimony [PDF] Added 07/29/2019 at 12:26 PM
  • Witness Biography [PDF] Added 07/29/2019 at 12:26 PM

Ms. Meri Lillia Mullins
Farm Manager, Lighthearted Ranch, Longmont, CO, on behalf of Flatiron Young Farmers Coalition

Added 07/23/2019 at 12:48 PM
  • Witness Statement [PDF] Added 07/29/2019 at 12:26 PM
  • Witness Truth in Testimony [PDF] Added 07/29/2019 at 12:26 PM
  • Witness Truth in Testimony [PDF] Added 07/29/2019 at 12:26 PM
  • Witness Biography [PDF] Added 07/29/2019 at 12:26 PM

Mr. Rodney Hebrink
President & CEO, Compeer Financial, Lakeville, MN

Added 07/23/2019 at 12:48 PM
  • Witness Statement [PDF] Added 07/29/2019 at 12:26 PM
  • Witness Truth in Testimony [PDF] Added 07/29/2019 at 12:26 PM
  • Witness Biography [PDF] Added 07/29/2019 at 12:26 PM

Hearing Record

  • Hearing Notice [PDF]
  • Hearing: Witness List [PDF]

First Published: July 18, 2019 at 02:09 PM
Last Updated: July 29, 2019 at 12:26 PM


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