Farming

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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