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New Jersey presents special challenges to farmers

18 Jun 2018, Posted by admin in Local Farms and Food, News, State News

Farmers face huge challenges from nature, and they accept that. Weather can freeze a crop in the bud, parch it in a drought or drown it with too much rain.

But farmers in New Jersey, the most densely populated state in the nation, say the biggest problem they face is interference from nonfarmers. They voted it their No. 1 issue at the 2017 New Jersey Farm Bureau annual meeting.

Click here to read the rest of the story from the Press of Atlantic City.