Liberal Free Chat Zone

[ksquared]

Hey HoogieMan. Did you get today's WSJ?
Front page story about old farmers in Sterling Scotland.

Very Old MacDonald Won’t Quit the Farm
Farmers are getting older, on average, around the developed world; ‘I have a youthful outlook,’ says one 90-year-old

At age 90, Jean Lyndsay continues to work on her livestock farm.
By Alistair MacDonald | Photographs by Kieran Dodds for The Wall Street Journal
Jan. 30, 2019 11:11 a.m. ET
(There are more pictures on line than in the print edition and a lot of the comments are great.)

STIRLING, Scotland—On a recent day, Jean Lyndsay put on her boots and went out to meet some of the young farmers whose land borders her own in the Scottish Highlands.

The youngest is in his late 60s. Ms. Lyndsay still works on her farm at age 90, inoculating and tagging sheep, putting them in their pens, handling paperwork and attending livestock auctions. The most physical work, such as loading hay bales onto a tractor, is left to her son, who is 63.

“If you keep going, you keep going,” she said. “I have a youthful outlook...”

https://www.wsj.com/articles/where-are-those-tractor-keys-very-old-macdonald-wont-quit-the-farm-11548864702?mod=searchresults&page=1&pos=1