ROBERTSON COUNTY, Texas (KBTX) - Less than 2% of the population in the United States is involved in production agriculture to feed and clothe the rest of us, but there are a few members of the next generation who are choosing to make a family farm their life's work."With my dad, he stressed that if you're going to come out here and do this, it's going to have to be your choice, that it's going to be something you want to do, because there's going to be days when you get up and it's such a challenge that if it's not something you wanted to do, it would not be sustainable. You wouldn't be able to prosper in this environment. So I passed that on to the kids and encouraged them to seek out other things that were interesting to them," Lee Denena, a Robertson County farmer and rancher, said.

Leon Denena earned his master's degree in exercise science from Texas A&M but chose to come back to the family farm."This is my fourth year out here full time and third year farming a little bit on my own," Leon Denena said.

"My role out here, I guess, is farm manager, for lack of a better word.""I enjoy the challenge. If it was easy, anybody would do it and it wouldn't be worth doing," Denena said.