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How to find, and keep, a farming mentor

The process of mentoring involves the transfer of skills, knowledge and expertise from an expert in a field to someone less experienced.

Both parties usually agree to work together for a period to achieve this goal, and the relationship between the two always has to be conducted with this objective in mind.

What discourages many established producers from mentoring aspirant farmers is that many of those

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