From VOA Learning English, this is the Agriculture Report.Have you ever wondered what the average American farmer looks like? A new report says he is a 58-year-old white man.That information comes from the United States Census Bureau, a government agency that collects and studies information about the nation's population and economy.The report also says farmers 65 and older are the fastest growing population group.As these farmers retire, American agriculture will experience big changes.The report suggests what some of those changes might look like and why they might not be so bad.Adrienne Gibson works a small piece of land in the rolling north of Knoxville, Tennessee.She is something of a new face in American agriculture. First of all, she is a woman.And secondly, she is a minority, and she is succeeding in an industry controlled mostly by white men.But the Census Bureau report suggests that may be changing.
