HUMAN INTEREST

Farmers should work with people in every kind of media: radio and podcast hosts, news reporters, and social-media influencers.

To overcome this challenge, it will take farmers like me. We can’t fight in the court of law, but we can make our voices heard in the court of public opinion.

The “Milk’s Got Game” campaign reminds us all that the cornerstone of an active lifestyle, athletic performance and family connection begins with a glass of milk — and the loving hands that pour it.

Maddie Hokanson follows a simple, but profound, philosophy in life: start with why. As a seventh-generation farmer with Schafer Farms, she says the farm has served as a lifeline while adjusting to parenting a child with serious health challenges.

“Even now, you can still find treasures because farm properties … are filled with buried secrets.”

Kleckner urged me to share my farming experiences with others and showed me how to do it the right way. He’d bring groups to my farm, often from foreign countries. He knew how to engage them with questions and conversation as they checked out the equipment in my barns and the biotech crops in my fields.

Regenerative agriculture holds a special appeal to young people. Many of them resist farming because they view traditional agriculture as antiquated and obsolete. They seek purpose and innovation. For them, regenerative agriculture is a revelation.

At just 12 years old, Lexi Anderson was diagnosed with a rare heart disease. After a successful heart transplant in early 2024, she is back to showing dairy cattle and playing sports. Read how her determination — and a life-saving donor — gave her a second chance.

About a mile after he passed a car on fire, Chad Rieck noticed smoke rolling out of his trailer. Within a minute or two, his trailer carrying gilts back from Aksarben was on fire.

Farmers deserve better than to have their work reduced to toxic clichés about “poison.” And consumers deserve better than headlines driven by ignorance and fear.