Corn, Beans, and Butterflies
Nature sometimes needs a hand, and a new program from the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) intends to help a tiny and vulnerable creature — the monarch...
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Clean And Green
When the spraying is done and the sprayer is in the yard, farmers and custom applicators face their final challenge: cleaning up the last few gallons of rinse water. In Europe, scientists determined...
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Boots On The Ground
Wisconsin is America’s Dairyland, home to 1.2 million cows and 25% of the nation’s dairy herds. That industry is displayed against a backdrop of more than 35 million acres of rolling hills and...
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Gas Natural
The world needs dreamers, and Rudi Roeslein dreams big. His vision for the future involves an unlikely pair of feedstock sources — harvested prairie grass and lagoons full of pig manure — that will...
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The Place for Prairie
This is the farm Tim Smith grew up on, 400 acres of gently sloping land near Eagle Grove, Iowa, and he’s seen it change quite a bit since he was a child. “When I grew up here we had alfalfa fields, oat...
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Precision Conservation
Technology is bringing a new vibe to conservation efforts being offered to farmers. Instead of sweeping acquisitions and mandated legislation, a new data-driven methodology is being used to design...
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Dreams For The Prairie
Pigs and pink blazing star. Lagoons and larkspur. An entrepreneur with a dream, a food company with a mission to help heal the planet, and monarch butterflies. Don’t forget the butterflies. Oddly...
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The dozers were crawling, the scrapers were filling with earth, and a dozen pieces of construction equipment were buzzing in all directions. It was the last week of July 2019, and Kelly Nelson was...
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The Minimalists
Maggie McQuown’s childhood home was a tall, two-story Victorian farmhouse with a panoramic view of the East Nishnabotna River valley. She’s back home now, retired to her family homestead near Red Oak,...
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Following the Sheep
How many visitors did you have on your farm last year? It’s safe to say Steve Osguthorpe and his family probably had more. A lot more. They raise crossbred sheep and grow feed crops in Park City, Utah,...
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