Narrowing the Gap Greg Reynolds, partner and co-owner of Riverbend Farm in Delano, MN, has always wanted to have a farm “The idea really came together when I was in high school,” explains Greg. “It was a time of the back-to-the-land movement, the first oil price hikes, and people were thinking about alternative and sustainability.” […]
Prairie Farmers Cooperative
A Hot Dog Competes and is a Wiener When investing in ethanol was first proposed to state officials and bankers, many balked and questioned whether farmer-owned plants could compete with huge agribusiness processors. Despite the skepticism Prairie Farmers Cooperative built their own processing facility. Still, they wondered how could a family farmer hot dog compete […]
Perish Farm
Making the Transition Lifelong farmers Roy and Theresa Perish and their five children raise livestock on their 280-acre dairy farm in Long Prairie, Minnesota. However, it was not until a dry summer left their grass too short to make hay in 1988 that they transitioned to rotationally grazing their cattle. That summer, Roy decided to […]
Elmwood Stock Farm
If Elmwood Stock Farm were a song, and each family member improvised on a different instrument, then the weekends would sound like the chorus. Cecil Bell raises beef and tobacco, his son John raises vegetables, his son-in-law Mac Stone works off the farm and raises organic livestock with Cecil’s daughter Ann, who additionally markets the […]