When Chance Jacobson graduated high school, he faced a conundrum likely familiar to many young people who grew up in the rural plains. He’d spent the past 18 years on his family farm about 40 miles east of Salina learning the trade from his father and grandfather. “I wanted to farm with my dad, and there just wasn’t enough money,” Jacobson said. “Between my dad and grandpa farming together, and for me to come in and be the third person in the operation, there just wasn’t really room for me.” He’d be the sixth generation farmer on this land if he stayed, and with their family operation growing crops and raising cattle, they could use the help. But in the rural area where he grew up, the nearest town unincorporated long ago, there were limited options for supplemental income.
Source: Wichita News
