It's not just farming that has that problem....I have a hard time finding guys who want to come to work in my shop as trainees. I try not to pay the trainees more than $8-$10 / hr start off with as I dont usually make any money off them, and all they do is mostly clean up the shop and clean up the parts we make, run bandsaws and such. But they take one look at my shop, see that the machnists get dirty and work long hrs sometimes, and they dont even consider taking the job, especially when whataburger/McDonalds will pay them $8/hr and they get to work with their friends and in a air conditioned store. I try to tell them that if they work into a good hand, they can make pretty good money as a machinist, as some of my guys make $18-$20 an hr, but they dont think about the future. Don't know what the future holds for the next 50 yrs or so, maybe thats why we have the immigrants coming over so quickly and building our homes and working in our factories!