In today’s world few people are farmers and few want to go back to that life; they ask “if it was so good, then why did we change it?” This contrasts with the demographics of
the LFM in the U.S. today. Though the average age of a farmer in America is 57, there is a
growing social movement of young farmers. Called “Greenhorns”, there are an increasing
number of college-educated young people who are turning to agriculture as a livelihood
(Greenhorns, 2013; Kitroeff, 2012). Federal programs like Future Farmers of America (FFA) and
Building Farmers (BF) are promoting this change. Efficiency of a LFM is attainable with less
detrimental costs, but again, depends on what an area is predisposed to grow