More young people going into farming, but it’s still few of them

More young people going into farming, but it’s still few of them

At the Porter County Fair on Thursday, Ron Birky, of Morgan Township, said he retired as a farmer after 46 years. “I was raised on a farm,” he said, but that’s not a guarantee he would become a farmer. “I was one of five kids, and I was the only one to go into farming,” he said. “I always enjoyed it. That was really the only thing I wanted to do after high school,” Birky said. Ron Birky of Morgan Township discusses his family's involvement in fa…