EVERY few years new data emerges showing the average age of Australian farmers is getting older and older.
In the early 1990s the average age of Australian broadacre farmers, according to Government statisticians, was reported as being in the 52-53 year old range.
Over the years that number has gradually shifted upward, to the mid 50s, late 50s, and most recently, as ANZ head of agri insights Michael Whitehead pointed out in an address to the Rural Press Club of Queensland last week, to 63 years of age, according to ABARES data released in February.
With those stats inevitably comes…
