PEKIN ( 25News Now ) - One local farmers’ market is struggling to find actual farmers who have produce to sell, and there might be a good reason for it.

Jase Kath owns Kath Family Farms in Carlock. He said that watching fellow market farmers leave the business has become a steady trend.

The farmer believes that old age is one contributing factor; however, he said he doesn’t see many young people coming in to fill their shoes.

Kath finds that farmers trying to enter the business now are either in over their heads or short on cash.

“Of course, when you do market farming, there is equipment made for it, but it’s very new and very expensive,” said Kath. “I had to kind of dial the time clock backwards and look at the old stuff, like how people were doing things back in the day.”

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