American Profile
Farming

Farming Stories

Across America, farming still plays a vital role in America’s economy and heritage. Family farms are passed down from generation to generation. While the crops may change, the hard work ethic still remains. Most Americans think of typical farm crops like apples, soy-beans, wheat and corn, but farming has expanded to also produce flowers, fish, mushrooms and worms.

Keeping the Faeth   by Lori Erickson
In a typical year, the Faeths harvest about 15,000 bushels of more than 50 different varieties of apples grown on 20 acres.
first appeared: 7/23/2006
Inspired by Irises   by Polly Campbell
On a spring day, Ray Schreiner stands amid a rainbow of millions of yellow, pink, purple and blue irises coloring the landscape at Schreiner's Iris Gardens near Keizer, Ore.
first appeared: 4/23/2006
Wild About Wild Flowers   by Linda Owen
One Texas farm produces seeds for the nation.
first appeared: 4/2/2006
Crafting Cosmetics on the Farm   by Margaret Schroeder
Elisa Bentz won two national FFA awards for creating her business, EZ's Butterfly Boutique, and a line of beauty products made from agricultural products such as soybean oil, beeswax, aloe vera and witch hazel.
first appeared: 2/26/2006
Tending Tannenbaums   by Polly Campbell
Tree growers nurture symbols of Christmas
first appeared: 12/4/2005
Unconventional Agriculture   by Marti Attoun
From heirloom apples to alligators, farmers and ranchers find their niche
first appeared: 10/2/2005
America's Trout Town   by Stuart Englert
Hundreds of ponds teeming with fish shimmer in the sunlight at the world’s largest trout farm in Buhl, Idaho.
first appeared: 8/21/2005
Harvest for All   by Marti Attoun
Iowa farmer Steve Anderegg has never met Dallas Clark, a spunky 4-year-old in Missouri who loves grape juice and chicken. But they are linked at America’s dinner table through a national network of sharing.
first appeared: 6/5/2005
Heritage Farms   by Marti Attoun
Century-old farming families remain loyal to the land
first appeared: 3/20/2005
Ground Breakers   by Marti Attoun
In a yearlong series on American farming, American Profile salutes the nation's agriculture industry.
first appeared: 2/20/2005
Tending the Family Farm   by Warren D. Jorgensen
In 1983, Kenneth Poore’s dying wish was to have his family farm in Stewartstown, N.H. turned into a museum. That wish came true in 1994, thanks to the town’s residents and the Poore Family Foundation for North Country Conservancy.
first appeared: 10/10/2004
Willie Nelson   by Patsy Bruce
Once again, Nelson will take time out of his heavy touring schedule to perform at Farm Aid’s benefit concert to support America’s family farmers.
first appeared: 8/31/2003
Blooming Beauty   by Polly Campbell
More than 30,000 people flock to the farm in Canby, Ore., on weekends during the dahlia festival in August and September.
first appeared: 8/24/2003
Honoring Old-Time Farming   by Curt Arens
Willard Kee and a handful of old-time farming enthusiasts around Niobrara, Neb., actually enjoy the loud whir of a threshing machine separating oats from straw as bundles of the ripened grain are pitched into the loud contraption.
first appeared: 7/20/2003
Mississippi's Cream Pitcher   by Michael Depp
While Mississippi produces a small fraction of the nation’s milk supply, the dairy industry is an economic engine in Walthall County, which produces more milk than any other part of the state.
first appeared: 4/20/2003
The 4-H Turns 100   by Stephen Leon Alligood
Four-H has existed for 100 years, and Allison Agle’s family has been there for most of it.
first appeared: 8/25/2002
Keeping the Family Farm   by Alice Ross
“A day here is never typical,” says Suzanne Sankow of Beaver Brook Farm, which has been in the family for 85 years and is Connecticut’s largest sheep farm.
first appeared: 3/24/2002
Belzoni, MS   by Michael Depp
Today, Belzoni, Miss., and Humphreys County also are known as the Catfish Capital of the World.
first appeared: 3/24/2002
Farm Junk as Art   by Robyn Hoffman
Joe Smith not only raises wheat, alfalfa, and cattle on his farm, he mines scrap heaps to raise a crop of unique sculptures welded together out of corroded water heaters, old wagon wheels, oilfield pipe, drive shafts, or whatever he can find.
first appeared: 3/17/2002
Dyersville, IA   by Lori Erickson
Corn, hogs, and soybeans aren’t the only farm commodities that drive the economy of Dyersville, Iowa. So do toy tractors, trucks, and other small-scale agricultural equipment.
first appeared: 2/24/2002
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