Everyday I watch this man pull out of our driveway. Everyday I worry what the day might hold. I worry that the wind blew too hard during the night. I worry the storm we got the evening before rained where we didn't need it and left the other parched fields starving for a drink. I worry today will be a good day and then the next three will be terrible. I worry he feels more defeat than he does triumph...
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I grew up on the family dairy, but when I was in high school I worked at a sporting goods store because I've really never been fond of working with cattle. I figured that a life in the "business" world was going to be better for me. After graduating high school I planned to study business
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My family recently celebrated our 100-year birthday. Pretty exciting! As an immigrant from Canton, Ticino Switzerland, my great grandfather, Serafino Settrini, came to America in 1915 and settled on our ranch which is nestled in the foothills of the Gabilan mountains of the Salinas Valley...
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Pressly Williams is in her third year as the resident farmer at Renfrow Farms in Matthews, NC. The farm is a sister business of Renfrow’s Hardware Store just down the road, and all together it’s a...
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My entire life, I’ve been exposed to Agriculture. When I was a child, my grandfather Harold Ross owned a Holstein dairy farm in Olive Branch, Mississippi. He had taken over the farm from his father...
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Video interview of family farmer David Brinkley, by Erik Wilson of My Job Depends on Ag.
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My name is Kyle and I’m a farmer.
The product of an Ivy League education, an involved member of an applied economics association, working for the second largest Real Estate Investment Trust in the country, with a company car that was worth more than the house I grew up in, and beginning a family of my own in Southern Utah, I was...
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Let me tell you some of the ways I love what I do. I am a fourth generation dairy farmer. I grew up working with my Dad, learning many life lessons from him. I moved across the road after I was married. See, when you farm you stay close to farm and family. We raised six kids, three boys and three girls...
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My name is Aubrey Fletcher, I am 23 years-old. I grew up on a 300-cow dairy operation in Miller, MO. As a youth I was involved in 4-H and FFA showing and judging dairy cattle. My passion for agriculture and the dairy industry...
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My name is Scott Wilson, I am 25 years old, married to a wonderful woman with 2 beautiful children ages 2 and the other 1 month old. I was born and raised in Southwest Missouri on a small dairy where the family...
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