After a long day of shoeing horses and some insightful conversation about all things calving and branding with one of my favorite clients, I decided to do a little light reading to brush up on current statistics found in the latest USDA Census of Agriculture. Frankly, some of the findings alarmed me. By far, the most disconcerting of the findings in the Ag Census were those concerning the average age of the American farmer and rancher. Today, the average age of the American farmer and rancher is 58.1 years old, up another 0.6 years from the USDA Census on Ag...