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Leaders in Ag: R.G. Lamar, Pecan Farmer and CEO
Leaders in Ag: R.G. Lamar, Pecan Farmer and CEO

What’s the most challenging thing about running a legacy brand? “The biggest challenge is being pigeonholed. Everyone expects us to recreate the past, but the future doesn’t look like what we were," Lamar says.

A New Option for Farmland Legacy Planning
A New Option for Farmland Legacy Planning

Legacy Farmland Trust offers landowners a way to preserve and protect their assets for generations to come.

John Phipps: Why Water is the New Oil for Landowners
John Phipps: Why Water is the New Oil for Landowners

John Phipps says there are signs that water is the new oil as water rights turn into water fights across the western U.S. He thinks it's a battle that could only heat up in the coming years.

84% of Iowa Farmland Now Owned Debt-Free
84% of Iowa Farmland Now Owned Debt-Free

Iowa State researchers find this is the state's highest level of farmland owned debt-free. In 1982, Iowa's debt-free land ownership was only 62%.

How Do You Add Value to Commodity Crops? Build a Niche Market, Proves Idaho Operation
How Do You Add Value to Commodity Crops? Build a Niche Market, Proves Idaho Operation

Idaho operation builds niche business to complement core crops.

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Shay Foulk: The Importance of Community in Rural America

We are more than the hours we work and the services we provide. We are people, friends, family, and community. You are important, you are loved, and you are worthy of conversation, caring, and love.

Top Producer of the Year Winner: ‘Without Values Our Business is Like a Ship at Sea Without a Rudder’
Top Producer of the Year Winner: ‘Without Values Our Business is Like a Ship at Sea Without a Rudder’

Congratulations to Todd, Louise and the Malecha family for being named the 2022 Top Producer of the Year. Pay a virtual visit to their dairy farm in Villard, Minn., to learn how they stay focused on goals and values.

Pasture to Plate: A Culture-Driven Beef Business
Pasture to Plate: A Culture-Driven Beef Business

The Ducheneaux family reconnects consumers with their food source 

$1B to Biofuels in Build Back Better
$1B to Biofuels in Build Back Better

USDA Secretary Tom Vilsack and Rep. Cindy Axne joined AgriTalk with host Chip Flory and Pro Farmer Policy Analyst Jim Wiesemeyer recently to comb through President Biden’s reframe of the Build Back Better (BBB) plan.

Farm Journal Field Days Harvest Edition
Farm Journal Field Days Harvest Edition

Join us now for new early riser sessions on input buying, grain storage, how to build your own planter and more every Tuesday at 8 a.m. Central.

Farm Journal Field Days Launches Harvest Edition
Farm Journal Field Days Launches Harvest Edition

Join us now for new early riser sessions on input buying, grain storage, how to build your own planter and more every Tuesday at 8 a.m. Central.

Success Tips: Push Beyond High Yields to High-Quality Management
Success Tips: Push Beyond High Yields to High-Quality Management

Farming wasn’t a guarantee for Ben Riensche. In fact, his father discouraged it in the 1980s and told him to find a good job somewhere off farm.

Farm Succession Planning Gets A Boost From An Ethical Will
Farm Succession Planning Gets A Boost From An Ethical Will

Top Producer's Executive Women in Ag gets underway Jan. 28. Registration is open.

How to Keep the Family Farm Farming
How to Keep the Family Farm Farming

Two-thirds of farmers do not have a plan in place as to how they will transfer their massive asset base onto the next generation.

Not many farmers retire; instead, they pursue different roles on the farm. One of the most popular roles is driving a truck.
John Phipps: A Salute to Aging Farm Truck Drivers in Aging Trucks

Not many farmers retire; instead, they pursue different roles on the farm. One of the most popular roles is driving a truck. John Phipps has a salute to those drivers in John's World.