The Committee on Small Business Subcommittee on Rural Development, Agriculture, Trade, and Entrepreneurship will meet for a hearing titled, “Supporting the Next Generation of Agricultural Businesses.” The hearing is scheduled to begin at 10:00 A.M. on Thursday, July 25, 2019 in Room 2360 of the Rayburn House Office Building.
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.
To view a livestream of the hearing, please click
here.
Hearing Notice
Hearing Memo
Witness List
Witnesses
Mr. Matthew Keesling
Farm Manager
Bures' Organic Family Farm
Deerbrook, WI
*Testifying on behalf of the Dairy Grazing Apprenticeship
Testimony
Mr. Jason Grimm
Owner
Grimm Family Farm
Williamsburg, IA
*Testifying on behalf of the National Young Farmers Coalition and the Eastern Iowa Young Farmers
Coalition
Testimony
Ms. Meri Lillia Mullins
Farm Manager
Lighthearted Ranch
Longmont, CO
*Testifying on behalf of the Flatiron Young Farmers Coalition
Testimony
Mr. Rodney Hebrink
President & CEO
Compeer Financial
Lakeville, MN
*Testifying on behalf of Farm Credit
Testimony
*Witness testimony will be posted within 24 hours after the hearing’s occurrence
