I'll be straight with you: there's always that moment this time of year when I question my sanity. It's peak season, and we're out here juggling flaming pitchforks. We're moving 12,000 chickens across our pastures – that's a lot of...
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Between 2017 and 2022, America lost 141,733 farms. I refuse to let ours be next.Sitting at our Ranching for Profit Executive Link meeting here at Horstmann Cattle Company in Missouri, we kicked things off like we always do - reading...
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At Grass Roots, our kids are hands-on in every part of the farm—digging in the dirt, caring for animals, and learning what it takes to build a thriving ecosystem from the ground up. & How You Can Help Save It...
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CELEBRATING THE COOPERATIVE 7 years into our farming journey, Andrea and I were on the verge of burnout. Don't get me wrong, we loved what we were doing, but the steep learning curve of raising animals on pasture was just...
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This March, we're embracing the extra sunlight in every corner of our homestead here in NE Arkansas. From our flourishing vegetable beds to the arrival of our first hatch of chicks, nature is proving her resilience. While the rest of...
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