Hello Gardeners, I’m Amanda McNulty with Clemson Extension and Making It Grow . The average age of South Carolina’s farmers is 59 and a half years, a sobering statistic when you consider that agribusiness is the largest sector of South Carolina’s economy. Some of these growers do have family members interested in continuing these businesses, but there’re many farms that don’t have a younger person training to take over their operation. To help attract new people to the production end of farming,