Growing tobacco was insurance for Beth and Doug Tillery on their 300 acre, 120-head dairy farm in eastern Kentucky. In years when milk prices sunk below the cost of production, the tobacco check would come in and balance the books. Fragile, but it worked for nearly two decades. Then one year hail destroyed 10 acres […]
Yang Farm
In the mountains of Laos, the soil is rich enough to grow vegetables without adding fertilizer, In Minnesota, Vang and other Hmong immigrants have discovered vegetables won’t grow without a little help. Many have experimented with fertilizers. But without prior experience with chemicals or being able to read the English language labels, using the inputs […]
Teague Farm
A persuasive six-year-old inspired Daniel Teague to say enough already and become a farmer, something he had always wanted to do. In 2001, Olivia asked her dad to plant watermelons for her. He was working full time as a machinist and on the weekends, building a new house for his family on the land where […]
Rabbit Hill Farm
Jay and Joanne Mertz have about 2 million head of livestock on their 15-acre central Texas farm. The couple and a staff of three full-time employees feed and water the animals daily, check for signs of health or disease, and harvest and package what the animals produce. The product is manure and the livestock is […]
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