Samantha Craun oversees 1200 acres and roughly 900 cows at her farm in eastern Tennessee. She took over Davis Brothers Dairy from her father and uncle, and it’s a lot of work. She grows all the forage the cows eat, so between growing her grain and tending to her animals, she’s nearly always busy. But […]

As a young boy in the late 1950s, Frank Glenn knew the soft, freshly-tilled brown dirt lining his family’s fields signaled the start of another planting season. “Back when we were young buckaroos, we would plow and disc and get a crop of weeds to come up [and then] knock them down,” Glenn said. Frank […]

On a small vegetable farm in Georgia, Shad Dasher used to grow watermelons every year.  Last year, he didn’t plant any.  Dasher, 56, said it was because of elevated fertilizer prices. Like many farmers, Dasher is finding it hard to stay afloat. “The American public just doesn’t understand what kind of beating our group (of […]