STEWARDS:

Stories and perspectives on American agriculture

Tuesday, March 22, 2011

Nicodemus, Kansas: Florence Howard, 79, retired farmer.

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I was born and raised up on the farm. Been a farmer all my life. I got married in 1950, the guy I married, he was a farmer and a rancher. He...
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Wednesday, March 16, 2011

Nicodemus, Kansas: Gil Alexander.

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I want to be a good farmer, but I also want to be a good steward too...but I’ve got a banker I’ve got to satisfy too, so I’ve got to grow th...
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Sunday, March 6, 2011

Sisters, Oregon: Lynn Miller, editor, The Small Farmer's Journal

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I'm working on an editorial right now, I just came up with something. Sometimes you just put two words together and you think, well why...
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Thursday, February 24, 2011

Ag Video Thursday: Polk County, North Carolina

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Kacy, one of the authors on this blog, works with the Polk County Agricultural Development Office in Mill Spring, North Carolina. Polk Coun...
Friday, February 18, 2011

Galatia, Illinois: Randy Anderson

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You know, we ARE trying to be stewards of the land.  I look at it like this.  I look at the land and it's almost like a vehicle.  Okay, ...
Thursday, February 17, 2011

Thursday is Ag Video Day! The Plow That Broke the Plains, a 1937 propaganda film about the dust bowl.

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This is a record of land...of soil rather than people--a story of the Great Plains; the 400,000,000 acres of wind-swept grasslands that spre...
Saturday, February 12, 2011

LeRoy, Kansas: Lyle Fischer, LeRoy Coop Association.

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I lived here all my life.  My dad worked in construction and farmed a little bit, but he never made a real livelihood out of farming. Had ca...
Thursday, February 10, 2011

National Ag Day promotional video.

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Hello folks!  Today I want to depart from the interviews for just a moment and show a video.  It's like those wonderful days in school, ...
Saturday, February 5, 2011

Richvale, California: Dennis Lindberg, 86. Rice farmer.

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Well, I was born here in 1924.  On July 23rd, 1924.  When I was a senior in high school I grew my first rice crop as an FFA project.  I bypa...
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Thursday, February 3, 2011

Update: Harry Young, one of our interviewees passed away this week.

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 Harry Young, one of the farmers interviewed for this project, passed away this week in Kentucky.  Our previous write-up of the interview is...
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