Category: farm

A Heritage Farm

Imagine a company that has been around for as long as the U.S. Capitol, is as old as West Point Academy, and is still family-owned and -operated today. There’s such a farm in Spencerport, New York, conducting business 219 years after its founding. In the beginning, it was a small family farm started by several…


American Essence: A Heritage Farm

Imagine a company that has been around for as long as the U.S. Capitol, is as old as West Point Academy, and is still family-owned and -operated today. There’s such a farm in Spencerport, New York, conducting business 219 years after its founding. In the beginning, it was a small family farm started by several…


‘It’s My Life’s Work’: BC Fruit and Vegetable Growers Face Uncertainty After Floods

While their homes and farm fields remain inundated by water, Curtis Sandhu says his family is looking towards rebuilding after a dike failed and devastating flooding hit the prime agricultural area east of Vancouver nearly two weeks ago. The flooding in the Sumas Prairie came little more than four months after a heat wave in…


‘Desperate for Tires’: Components Shortage Roils US Harvest

CHICAGO—Dale Hadden cannot find any spare tires for his combine harvester. So the Illinois farmer told his harvest crew to avoid driving on the sides of roads this autumn to avoid metal scraps that could shred tires. New Ag Supply in Kansas is pleading with customers to order parts now for spring planting. And in…


Short and Sweet: Pawpaw Season is Ripe Now

“The sweet, elusive pawpaw has been hiding in plain sight in the eastern and midwestern United States for centuries,” George Washington’s diary entry on March 7, 1785, mentions the pawpaw trees he planted at his Mount Vernon, Virginia home. The pawpaw is said to have been the first president’s favorite fruit. Lewis and Clark wrote of…


Price of Kansas Farmland up More Than 10 Percent

The price of farm real estate and cropland in Kansas has risen more than 10 percent in the past year. “There are many reasons for the current increase in farm real estate and cropland values, such as historically low-interest rates, improved farm economy, increased demand of farmland for urban use and other outside investments,” Dean…


New Jersey’s Largest Dairy Farm Nearly Destroyed in Tornado

The morning after one of the most intense tornados recorded in New Jersey history all but demolished the largest dairy farm in the state, owners Marianne and Wally Eachus looked at each other and just cried. “What are we going to do?” they asked one another. Just 12 hours earlier, the couple was eating dinner…


California Faces Potential Bacon Shortage

California restaurants are preparing for potential bacon shortages beginning January 2022, when a new law to improve farm animal conditions that could cause a decline in pork supply goes into effect.  One of the first international pancake houses in Orange County, Pancakes R Us, foresees a costly impact on its menu prices.    Abdullah Akbar, who…


The ways drought is effecting small farmers

A drought is a prolonged shortage in the water supply. They can last for months or years and have a huge impact on the local ecosystem and economy. We just happen to live a severely drought stricken part of Nebraska. Every step sounds like crunching on egg shells. In large parts of the country, crops…


How to earn money and travel by working on farms

Like travel? Love gardening or have a special affinity for critters? Enjoy using your hands and learning new things? Well- there are farms, ranches and orchards of all kinds looking for YOU. Everywhere. Organic farms, fish or shrimp farms (aquaculture), flower farms, orchards, cattle and horse ranches, apiaries (bees), turkey farms, llama farms, goats, rice…