Top Producer
After moving the family farm from Canada to Mississippi in the 1970s, change became part of the family culture for the Jack family of Silent Shade Planting Company - winners of the 2023 Top Producer of the Year Award.
After two months of a waning outlook on the ag economy, economists views took a turn in the November Ag Economists’ Monthly Monitor, a survey of nearly 70 ag economists from across the country.
Farming the Mississippi River bottom yields boom times and busts
Risk manager defies weather with irrigation tech, diverse crops
Straw market expertise indelibly links producer to Asian dairies and feedlots.
How a Kentucky farm with deep roots grew vertically and professionally.
Alabama transplant turns poor soils into a pioneering 10,000-acre enterprise
These first-generation operators now own the second-largest peach producer in the U.S. and grow peppers and broccoli, as well, with a team of more than 600 workers.
The brothers co-own a diversified crop farm including potatoes, onions, carrots and mint. They’ve invested in field drainage and other technology that makes production, packing and shipping more efficient than ever.
The CEO of Pagel’s Ponderosa Dairy in Kewaunee, Wis., also owns three cheese manufacturing facilities and a farm-to-fork restaurant in Green Bay.