Producer Features

The word “sustainability” is used often in today’s society, and it has a different definition for different groups. Successful farmers and ranchers practice sustainability in their operations every day.

“We’re one family on one ranch, and that’s it.”

That statement is the bold proclamation on the Alderspring Ranch website, front and center with their family photo.

There are plenty of places in the U.S. that are “off grid,” (off the electrical power grid, that is). If you’re 80 miles east of Tonopah, Nevada, you’re so far off the grid it’s difficult for even the lizards to find you.

Kale Jackson approaches everything in his life as an engineer, constantly striving to be more efficient, including producing high-quality hay.

The historically traditional farm in Kentucky consisted of 2 acres of tobacco for cash (the amount that could be feasibly farmed using only family labor), a pig, a cow or two, chickens and a garden.

Custom grazing takes a unique set of skills and brings new challenges, but it’s the way Dr. Jason Salchow with his wife, Sharon, and their family have built a successful business grazing stockers and seedstock bulls in southwestern Missouri.