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Bringing Youth Back to the Farm in Rural America

Food Tank

Even though we live in rural Iowa, kids don’t have access,” says Melissa Beermann, Monona County Director for Iowa State University Extension and Outreach. Everybody assumes that it’s just farm country, but most kids live in town or if they do live rural, they don’t own property.

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Food Safety & Wildfires Case Study: Brisa Ranch

Caff

Due to the farm being in a more rural and remote area, it took about four days from when the fire initially started to when there was a firefighter presence near their farm. The farmers and firefighters worked tirelessly for those weeks and in the end Brisa Ranch was able to save most of their main building infrastructure, tools, and crops.

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Finding Balance as a Sixth-Generation Pig Farmer

Food Tank

Being a naive kid, living in rural America…you get burned out on a community that you know everybody in and you don’t take it for what it is. Today, he’s a sixth-generation pig farmer partnering with Niman Ranch. The best thing about Niman Ranch is how transparent they are. Now, I realize how cool that is,” says Williams.

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Meet the Ranchers Trying to Restore Grasslands

Modern Farmer

Mickey Steward has worked hard to rehabilitate her ranch. You can’t buy a good ranch,” Steward jokes. You have to buy a ranch that, for whatever reason, has gotten rundown.” Steward runs Red Angus cattle on about 1,000 acres of land over the Crow Reservation in Montana, right at the foot of the Bighorn Mountains.

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Generating Resiliency on the Ranch in the Face of Drought—WR Grazing—Irricana, Alberta

RR2CS

By Trina Moyles Tim Wray grew up on his family’s cattle ranch in Irricana, a small town located 50 kilometres northeast of Calgary in southern Alberta. Today, Tim and Joanne manage WR Grazing in collaboration with Doug and other family members on 3000 acres of land.

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Good Goats Make Good Neighbors

Civil Eats

He and 100 caprine teammates can clear about an acre a day. “I Founded in 2020, Happy Goat farm sits on a 2,000-acre property in Mariposa County, near Yosemite National Park. That amounts to approximately 200 acres in addition to the 220 acres the goats take on each year back at the farm. Photo by Craig Kohlruss.

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Uninsured Country: Affordable Health Care Eludes Many Family Farmers and Ranchers

Daily Yonder

Finding adequate, affordable health insurance can be a huge challenge for people who run small, family farms or ranches, said Alana Knudson, director of the NORC Walsh Center for Rural Health Analysis. The rural areas they live in suffer from shortages of doctors and hospitals. “I’m The quality of rural care can be low.