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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Ever wonder what real innovation looks like? Hint:Â It's not always about the latest tech gadget.I've been farming for nearly two decades, and I thought I'd seen it all. But Stanton Martin and his crew at Martin Farm keep proving me...
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Friends, we've been suckered into buying food in two installments: the empty calories at the grocery store, then the missing nutrients at the pharmacy.The numbers make my blood boil. Since the 1950s, industrial farming has stripped 30-70% of nutrients from our food. Spinach has...
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CHAPTER ONE Friends, I'm about to get more real with you than I ever have before. Last month I shared how Andrea and I nearly walked away from farming before finding renewed purpose. Today, I'm documenting another critical moment in our...
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