Farmer Profiles
Honoring a Veteran Who Shared a Taste of Home Across the Globe
June 29, 2015
In 1966, a Georgia boy wrote home to thank the state peanut commission for sending him a dozen boxes of local peanuts to distribute to his fellow soldiers and the Vietnamese people.
June 29, 2015
In 1966, a Georgia boy wrote home to thank the state peanut commission for sending him a dozen boxes of local peanuts to distribute to his fellow soldiers and the Vietnamese people.
Profile: Dairy Family Makes Homestead for Next Generation
April 06, 2015
Jennifer Holle always knew she’d work with large animals. She just expected it to be horses. But, then she met Andrew Holle, an undergraduate working on a dairy science degree at the University of Minnesota at Crookston. “His adviser actually told him, ‘Stay away from those horse girls,’” Jennifer jokes. “But once we started dating, things went very quickly. He brought me back to his family’s farm and said, ‘This is what I’m coming back to.’
April 06, 2015
Jennifer Holle always knew she’d work with large animals. She just expected it to be horses. But, then she met Andrew Holle, an undergraduate working on a dairy science degree at the University of Minnesota at Crookston. “His adviser actually told him, ‘Stay away from those horse girls,’” Jennifer jokes. “But once we started dating, things went very quickly. He brought me back to his family’s farm and said, ‘This is what I’m coming back to.’
In This Farm Family, the Farmer is Mom
March 23, 2015
Kristen Nickerson is a farm wife and a farm mom. … She’s a farmer and she’s a wife and she’s a mother. “For most people, farm wife means you are the farmer’s wife,” said Nickerson, who runs a 3,000-acre grain and swine farm with her brother and sister in Kent County, Maryland. “It’s usually the man who is the farmer in the family.
March 23, 2015
Kristen Nickerson is a farm wife and a farm mom. … She’s a farmer and she’s a wife and she’s a mother. “For most people, farm wife means you are the farmer’s wife,” said Nickerson, who runs a 3,000-acre grain and swine farm with her brother and sister in Kent County, Maryland. “It’s usually the man who is the farmer in the family.
Profile: ‘Farm Mom’ a Dream Job for Pugh
March 13, 2015
Bethany Pugh is an office manager, chauffer, teacher, volunteer, cook, accountant, veterinary technician and housekeeper. In short, she’s a farm mom. Last year, Pugh was named the top Farm Mom for the Southeast region in the annual America's Farmers Mom of the Year contest put on by American Agri-Women and Monsanto.
March 13, 2015
Bethany Pugh is an office manager, chauffer, teacher, volunteer, cook, accountant, veterinary technician and housekeeper. In short, she’s a farm mom. Last year, Pugh was named the top Farm Mom for the Southeast region in the annual America's Farmers Mom of the Year contest put on by American Agri-Women and Monsanto.
Auburn Grad Takes Helm of Peanut Producers Group
March 02, 2015
When Caleb Bristow was a boy, he loved to hang out at his father’s peanut-buying point in Columbia, Ala. “When I was a kid, Daddy ran a buying point for Golden Peanut and that was a time I looked forward to each year,” said Bristow. “I got to take samples and check the moisture to see if the peanuts were dry coming out of the field or needed to go through the dryers before being graded.
March 02, 2015
When Caleb Bristow was a boy, he loved to hang out at his father’s peanut-buying point in Columbia, Ala. “When I was a kid, Daddy ran a buying point for Golden Peanut and that was a time I looked forward to each year,” said Bristow. “I got to take samples and check the moisture to see if the peanuts were dry coming out of the field or needed to go through the dryers before being graded.
Family Dairy & Creamery Deliver Tasty Milk from Happy Cows
February 16, 2015
Scott Glover didn’t inherit a dairy, but he inherited a love for animals. This month, the Glovers started milking cows at their new dairy in North Georgia, a site will help show people how their milk begins in the field and winds up on their dinner table.
February 16, 2015
Scott Glover didn’t inherit a dairy, but he inherited a love for animals. This month, the Glovers started milking cows at their new dairy in North Georgia, a site will help show people how their milk begins in the field and winds up on their dinner table.
Profile: Zurn Tells the Farmer’s Story
February 09, 2015
Karolyn Zurn didn’t grow up on a farm; she grew up in the suburbs of Southern California. But she visited rural Minnesota often, where she saw the life her relatives lived growing soybeans and other northern-grown crops. Turns out, farm living was the life for her.
February 09, 2015
Karolyn Zurn didn’t grow up on a farm; she grew up in the suburbs of Southern California. But she visited rural Minnesota often, where she saw the life her relatives lived growing soybeans and other northern-grown crops. Turns out, farm living was the life for her.
Young Couple Building a Future in Farming
February 02, 2015
Zach Shanklin didn’t wait long to get established as a farmer. The spring after he graduated high school, Shanklin and a partner leased land and planted a crop. The landowner was confident in him, though. It was his dad.
February 02, 2015
Zach Shanklin didn’t wait long to get established as a farmer. The spring after he graduated high school, Shanklin and a partner leased land and planted a crop. The landowner was confident in him, though. It was his dad.
Farmer Profile: Family Fruit Farm Brings Schmuhl Back to Farming
January 05, 2015
Kimberly Schmuhl started sorting through strawberries when she was so little, she had to stand on a crate to see over the countertop. Twenty years later, she still works on her family’s Michigan fruit farm.
January 05, 2015
Kimberly Schmuhl started sorting through strawberries when she was so little, she had to stand on a crate to see over the countertop. Twenty years later, she still works on her family’s Michigan fruit farm.
Farmer Profile: Dairy Producer, Professor, Consultant, Mold Does It All
September 29, 2014
The Minnesota State Fair is more than just family fun and fried food to Doris Mold. It’s a chance to show 1.7 million people where their food comes from. During the fair – which typically runs for two weeks at the end of August and into September – a slow day for Mold will be 14 hours. She used to pull the occasional 24-hour shift, but this year, the longest day was just 20 hours.
September 29, 2014
The Minnesota State Fair is more than just family fun and fried food to Doris Mold. It’s a chance to show 1.7 million people where their food comes from. During the fair – which typically runs for two weeks at the end of August and into September – a slow day for Mold will be 14 hours. She used to pull the occasional 24-hour shift, but this year, the longest day was just 20 hours.
Women in Ag: Keeping Roots in Potatoes, Family Grows and Thrives
September 01, 2014
The McCrum family started to grow potatoes in 1886, more than 70 years before Idaho began to replace Maine as the largest potato producer. Today, the fifth generation is taking over the operation and finding the value-added ways to keep an agriculture business growing for future generations.
September 01, 2014
The McCrum family started to grow potatoes in 1886, more than 70 years before Idaho began to replace Maine as the largest potato producer. Today, the fifth generation is taking over the operation and finding the value-added ways to keep an agriculture business growing for future generations.
Farmer Profile: Extension Work a Calling from God to Help Farmers
August 25, 2014
Rome Ethredge has a piece of paper somewhere that says he graduated high school in Lincoln, Nebraska. He’s never been to Nebraska, but as an agronomist, might like to go one day. The diploma he earned through correspondence lessons is just one of the details of a life that took a South Georgia farm boy to France and then Togo, Africa, only to bring him back to the same type of South Georgia farming community he loved as a boy.
August 25, 2014
Rome Ethredge has a piece of paper somewhere that says he graduated high school in Lincoln, Nebraska. He’s never been to Nebraska, but as an agronomist, might like to go one day. The diploma he earned through correspondence lessons is just one of the details of a life that took a South Georgia farm boy to France and then Togo, Africa, only to bring him back to the same type of South Georgia farming community he loved as a boy.
Farmer Profile: Crump Keeps Citrus Roots, But Expands into Vegetables, Too
August 04, 2014
Steve Crump doesn’t think of himself as the kind of farmer who takes risks, even if the University of Florida Cooperative Extension picked him as one of three small-farm innovators in 2014. “I don’t consider myself to be very innovative. I usually let someone else be the first to try something new. If it works for them, then Buddy, I will copy it; I will steal that idea,” he jokes.
August 04, 2014
Steve Crump doesn’t think of himself as the kind of farmer who takes risks, even if the University of Florida Cooperative Extension picked him as one of three small-farm innovators in 2014. “I don’t consider myself to be very innovative. I usually let someone else be the first to try something new. If it works for them, then Buddy, I will copy it; I will steal that idea,” he jokes.
Women in Ag: Necessity Pushes Farm Wife into Business
July 21, 2014
As a girl, Amy Robinette didn’t dream of a career in agriculture. Her father gave up row-cropping during the tobacco buy-out, and Amy went off to college to become an English teacher. At North Carolina State University, she met and fell for boy who planned to raise cattle. A few years later, their family was raising a fairly large herd and struggling to find processors to handle their beef.
July 21, 2014
As a girl, Amy Robinette didn’t dream of a career in agriculture. Her father gave up row-cropping during the tobacco buy-out, and Amy went off to college to become an English teacher. At North Carolina State University, she met and fell for boy who planned to raise cattle. A few years later, their family was raising a fairly large herd and struggling to find processors to handle their beef.
Farmer Profile: New Season Ahead for Soybean Leader
July 14, 2014
Danny Murphy will have a lot more time on the farm in six months, when he will end a decade of service to the American Soybean Association. As president last year and chairman this year, Murphy traveled to Washington, D.C. to represent American soybean farmers on issues as diverse as the Farm Bill, the Renewable Fuel Standard, biotechnology approvals and tax incentives.
July 14, 2014
Danny Murphy will have a lot more time on the farm in six months, when he will end a decade of service to the American Soybean Association. As president last year and chairman this year, Murphy traveled to Washington, D.C. to represent American soybean farmers on issues as diverse as the Farm Bill, the Renewable Fuel Standard, biotechnology approvals and tax incentives.
Women in Ag: Brigham Chooses Farm over Beach
April 22, 2014
Hillary Brigham didn’t always own a farm. Before she started raising livestock on a homestead in the Florida Panhandle, she worked as far away as a person can get and still be in Florida. She ran a hotel in South Beach.
April 22, 2014
Hillary Brigham didn’t always own a farm. Before she started raising livestock on a homestead in the Florida Panhandle, she worked as far away as a person can get and still be in Florida. She ran a hotel in South Beach.
Women in Ag: Black Goes From Raising a Calf to Raising Awareness
March 31, 2014
Before Caroline Black could read, she knew she wanted to be a farmer. At 4 years old, she couldn’t really picture what that would mean to her – that a career in agriculture didn’t necessarily mean she’d spend life in overalls and work boots.
March 31, 2014
Before Caroline Black could read, she knew she wanted to be a farmer. At 4 years old, she couldn’t really picture what that would mean to her – that a career in agriculture didn’t necessarily mean she’d spend life in overalls and work boots.
Cotton Farmer Finds New Challenge in Cooking Oils
October 21, 2013
Clay Oliver is happy growing cotton, peanuts and grain. It’s what his family does on their 1,300 acres in Wilcox County, Ga., a farming community with just 8,750 people.
October 21, 2013
Clay Oliver is happy growing cotton, peanuts and grain. It’s what his family does on their 1,300 acres in Wilcox County, Ga., a farming community with just 8,750 people.
Family Farm Shows Success of Planning & Communicating
June 24, 2013
One of the common pieces of advice that financial planners give to farming is families is a simple instruction: Communicate.
June 24, 2013
One of the common pieces of advice that financial planners give to farming is families is a simple instruction: Communicate.
