HUMAN INTEREST

Through embryo transfer, researchers worked with the Smithsonian to preserve the past while also growing a new future for the Arapawa goat breed.

For kids who know nothing about agriculture, stepping foot into the Children’s Discovery Museum in Normal, Ill., might be their one chance to walk in a farmer’s shoes.

Lexi Anderson is a spirited kid who’s always supporting those around her. But Lexi’s big heart is now what’s needing saved, and it’s a constant showing of love and support that’s getting this family through.

What started five years ago with Flex-Ro robot, is just starting to scratch the surface on what may be possible in space.

An aging grain bin in Inman, Kan., served as Mindy Allen’s blank canvas. After six weeks, it was transformed into a mural that’s truly larger than life.

The shotgun houses and clapboard shacks are gone, but a child’s toy lingers in farmland rows. Time, tillage and rainfall reveal the sharecropper’s last testament: clusters of magnificent clay, agate and glass marbles.

Just an hour and forty-fives south of the Iowa state line, 15-year-old Garrett Heil’s cotton is a testament to the determination of a remarkable farmer not old enough to qualify for a driver’s license. Heil has succeeded in producing cotton deep in the pocket of the Midwest.