They laughed at her $14 bag of clover seed. Then the drought exposed w...
In the spring of 1987, nearly every farmer in Pottawattamie County, Iowa, planted corn the same way. This was not treated as a decision. It was gravity. Corn was what...
In the spring of 1987, nearly every farmer in Pottawattamie County, Iowa, planted corn the same way. This was not treated as a decision. It was gravity. Corn was what...
In August of 2017, a check for $187,450 was written to a man who had not bought a bag of commercial hog feed in fourteen years. The check was not...
On a frozen Tuesday morning in February, Jazelle Harmon signed a contract with a smirk she did not bother to hide. One thousand dollars. That was the number she assigned...
She is thirty-one years old now. She runs a diversified farming operation on 614 acres in Sequoyah County, Oklahoma: market vegetables, pastured poultry, a certified organic grain plot, and a...
Part 1 “That dilapidated pile of rotting wood you call a barn has to be demolished within thirty days, Mr. Miller.” Karen Brewster said it like she was reading a...
PART 1 My name is Marissa G. Carter, and for three years I thought I knew the shape of my life. It was the shape of Ethan’s keys landing in...
Part 1 When I think back to that summer, what scares me most is not how much money I lost. It is how calm I sounded while my family was...
Part 1 The day the homeowners association fined me ten thousand dollars for “unauthorized agricultural activity,” I was standing ankle-deep in mud trying to pull a stubborn calf out of...
Part 1 I found out about Texas from a photo I was never supposed to see. Not from a family group chat. Not from my mother calling with that fake-bright...
Part 1 Some stories begin with a phone call. Mine began with the smell of burned toast, wet sneakers by the back door, and my ten-year-old daughter standing in the...