Background When faced with choices to stay profitable, such as getting bigger or cutting his cost of production, Fernholz chose to trim his inputs, change to organic crop farming and revamp his marketing strategies.  “Even if you don’t sell as ‘certified organic,’ you generally have significantly fewer actual dollars expended to produce a crop,” he […]

Background When the Endicotts decided to return to the rural beauty of their childhood home in southeast Kansas, they bought a 400-acre farm and began raising beef cattle, vegetables, grain and hay.   They always had big ideas. They wanted to sell their organic beef from the farm directly to customers and sought a way […]