The best beef in the world might come from old cows. It's day eleven of helping an 8,000-acre Montana ranch transition to the next generation. I'm standing in a field staring at two cows that were supposed to go to...
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Forty percent of American farmland is owned by someone over sixty-five. When a ranch doesn't have a successor, it doesn't get passed down. It gets sold. To a developer. To an investment fund. To someone who might never run a cow...
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I just dropped Andrea off at the Billings airport. She's heading home. I'm staying in Montana to take a chance on something new. A year ago I wouldn't have had the confidence to make that call. A researcher named Dora Biro...
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72 million Americans can't pay their medical bills. The food system made people sick. The healthcare system manages the sickness. Both industries get paid. That cycle costs $1.1 trillion a year in healthcare and drives 20,000 farms out of business. Someone close to me is...
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These sheep are ready for a morning move The first sound of the morning is a thump. If I’m sleeping lightly, it might be a rustling, and then a thump. Sometimes I want to ignore it and keep my eyes closed. For a...
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