Sowing the seeds of change

Perspectives on agriculture offered from the next generation
  • Three generation work cattle on a family ranch. Teaching always slows down the progress of the work, but if the next generation isn’t taught, who will carry on? joycesarah mccabe | dispatch record
    Three generation work cattle on a family ranch. Teaching always slows down the progress of the work, but if the next generation isn’t taught, who will carry on? joycesarah mccabe | dispatch record
  • Jordan J. Herbst celebrates a job done in one of the hay fields she and her husband Jordan S. Herbst have farmed for the last several years. joycesarah mccabe | dispatch record
    Jordan J. Herbst celebrates a job done in one of the hay fields she and her husband Jordan S. Herbst have farmed for the last several years. joycesarah mccabe | dispatch record
Statistics reported on various agribusiness pages have been grim in the past: fewer cattle, aging farmers and ranchers, once productive ranchland now being sold and broken up by developers putting in subdivisions, the sale barn closing, drought and fire devastating crops, and, according to the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization, less than 60 harvests are left.Added to that list is…

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