A Legacy Lasting Generations: Our Family Farm Story
Every journey has its first step. Every farm has a beginning. The stories farmers have are endless, and endlessly fascinating. Every family has endured tremendous hardship at different periods of…
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A Story of the Death of Tillage
One of the most powerful things about farming is the generational legacy behind it. If we don’t look after our soils, we will not survive long.
Why Are Farms Getting So BIG?
Hint – it’s not because they’re greedy “factory farms”. The farm I’m involved with got its start many decades ago. My grandparents started farming in another area after marrying, where…
Farming Constantly Changes – And That’s A Good Thing
Good times can’t go on forever – but neither can bad times. Even at the worst of the low grain prices in the early 2000’s, when all hope seemed lost, when it seemed like farming would never recover – it did. And, even when it seemed like we could never keep up with a growing world, when it seemed like crazy, volatile weather would forever curtail our ability to grow large crops – we did.