USA: Who's Your Farmer? 2011 Tour

The second annual tour of young farmers comes to the Pacific Northwest, PR Web reports. Organic Valley, America’s largest cooperative of organic farmers and one of the USA's leading organic brands, has announced the Generation Organic 2011 “Who’s Your Farmer?” Tour, which will kick off at Organic Valley headquarters in La Farge, Wisconsin, on 26 September 2011, and will wind its way through the Pacific Northwest, ending at Stanford University in Palo Alto, California, on 17 October 2011. The full schedule is available here.
 

Organic Valley’s Generation Organic is a group of young farmers aged 18 to 35, representing a new generation of sustainable agriculture leaders. The farmers will make the three-week tour on a bus fueled by sustainably produced biofuels. Along the way they will urge people to "own their food" and arm them with knowledge about how personal food choices affect the health of bodies and  planet and drive their future.
 

According to the USDA Census of Agriculture, America has lost approximately 4.5 million farms since 1935, and most of the 2.1 million farms that remain are operated by farmers with an average age of 57. In contrast, the average age of Organic Valley farmers is 44. Last October, the first Generation Organic “Who’s Your Farmer?” Tour took place in the Northeast of the USA, stopping at key colleges and ending in the capital.