The emotional and financial sides of farming are inseparable, Jared Gardner and Hilary Foote say. In fact, it can be a path to success.

Keep the money

Here’s a concept that’s making this Oregon farm community more profitable. Could it help you?

Reading Time: 10 minutes This is not a typical Country Guide story. It couldn’t be. Jared Gardner didn’t start out as a farmer. It’s just that every step of his life has moved him inexorably and sometimes surprisingly towards not only building up a livestock farm but also a regional food system that promises to put more money in […] Read more



African man and woman picking berries

Uganda decides: go big or go small

Morrison Rwakakamba is a presidential adviser. He is a farmer too. In this African country, that puts him at the heart of some of our planet’s most vital issues

Reading Time: 6 minutes Like any farmer anywhere, Morrison Rwakakamba feels that farming is in his DNA, yet this 35-year-old finds himself pulled in two directions — home to his farm in the southwest corner of Uganda, but also to the city and to the corridors of power in the capital Kampala where he has been appointed special adviser […] Read more

American flag in farmer's field

Can American farms keep getting bigger?

Now even big farmers have their doubts and feel it's reached a tipping point

Reading Time: 5 minutes About three hours north of the Gulf of Mexico, Louisiana Delta Plantation was the largest U.S. crop farm, working 100,000 acres. But that was only until 2005. Then the farm was broken up and sold. During a decade of its dizzying climb, Eddie Davis managed up to 34,000 acres for the company. It was easy […] Read more