Brazil’s Young Farmers Help It Usurp US Agricultural Supremacy

When his father passed away suddenly in 1990, Brian Schaumburg inherited his family’s Illinois farm. But when he himself went to retire after almost three decades at the helm, there was nobody around to step in.

“They had no interest, and I can’t blame them,” Schaumburg said of his children, who’d long since moved away. “They’ve seen the accidents, the drought and all of that, how hard life can be.” So after three generations of family farming, “it will stop with me.”