Farmer Resilience
Two accidents. Two recoveries. Two back braces hanging on an office wall. And one lesson a California dairy nutritionist learned the hard way: “Professionally, we’re all replaceable. But family? That’s different.”
Five years after her late brother, Levi, won grand champion, 12-year-old Lynnox Tysinger honored his memory with an emotional victory in the exact same show ring, leaning on the family’s rule to “just keep driving.”
A lifelong livestock advocate shares the bitter irony of developing a red meat allergy on the family farm and her battle to regain a normal life.
As autumn harvest arrives in Dracut, Mass., those who loved the American Airlines captain honor him where he felt most at home: behind the wheel of a tractor on the farm.
This is an attack on more than Ukraine and its people. It’s also an attack on everyone who lives outside Ukraine’s borders.
While others sign letters of intent for college athletics or academic programs, one 18-year-old Evansville, Ind., senior made a commitment to join his dad on the farm, after gun violence nearly changed their legacy forever.
Though fire reduced her grandparent’s milking parlor to rubble, the tragedy only strengthened Makenna Skiff’s resolve to rebuild and carry on the dairy legacy her grandparents started more than 50 years ago.
Years after her story first touched the agriculture industry, a suicide attempt survivor reflects on the reality of long-term healing and the power of uncomfortable conversations.