Farmer Resilience
A national subject matter expert in managing mental health issues discusses how to recognize the symptoms and how to effectively manage mental health struggles in rural America.
The oilseed could be a fit now for growers in Arkansas, Kentucky, Missouri, Tennessee, southern Illinois, and parts of Alabama and Mississippi. Bunge Chevron Ag Renewables is offering a 2024/25 production program.
You need to do what you need to do to make your life better. Is it really that simple?
Head to the Lone Star State, and everything is bigger, or so they say. That doesn’t only refer to big hats and big hair, it also applies to dairies, as the average size in the Panhandle hovers around 4,000 cows.
Farmer and philanthropist Howard Buffett held a fireside chat during the 2024 Top Producer Summit to share his experiences visiting the front line of Ukraine over the past two years.
Donations of hay, feed, fence supplies, cow feed and milk replacer are needed to support livestock owners impacted by the wildfires that have scorched ranchland across a large portion of the Texas Panhandle.
“As a young person, if you’re not going to be proud of what you do, don’t waste your time,” he advises. “Be proud of what you do, and everywhere you go, be excited about it and talk about it.”
Fifteen years into growing a farm and a family together, everything changed for Ron and Sherri Prins and their four young kids. A diagnosis made the couple lean on their faith and on one another more than ever before.
God bless grain cart drivers. They are great mind readers, understanding all those hand signals that are hard to interpret and hard to see, and the person who generally takes all the blame.
We’ve got to tell our farming stories—and when we tell them with honesty and authority, we’ll win hearts and minds and defend our freedom to farm.