Category: Prairie Farmer

What’s Your Story: Livestock conservation is a winning tale for farmers. It’s said a rising tide lifts all boats. And in farming, it’s no different.
Photo credit: The Livestock Conservancy

Summertime’s easygoing vibe has a way of alleviating tension, or at least postponing it.

Because why else aren’t people wringing their hands about Russia’s game-changing exit from the Black Sea grain movement deal?

Photo credit: Mashed.com

Americans are nagged to no end about their diets. The Centers for Disease Control, for example, relentlessly chides consumers for eating less than 10% of their daily recommended fruit-and-vegetable intake.

The center says that leads to all kinds of health problems and disease. But who’s to blame?

Photo credit: Cushman & Wakefield Food & Beverage

What’s Your Story? The movement toward homegrown self-sufficiency makes this an ideal time to get consumers onboard with domestic fertilizer production, but farmers need to fill the information gap. Photo credit: Market Realist

I’m pleased to now be contributing a monthly column to Illinois’ Prairie Farmer, called “What’s Your Story?” It’s all about tips and reasons to help producers reach consumers and decision makers. If those groups are better informed, policy creation and buying decisions should be more balanced.