Sometimes an ag news item comes across your notification feed and lingers in the back of your head. This is not intended to be an ag news-brief summary. It’s just a few clips of stories circulating and some thoughts on them. Feel free to join the conversation. 

What once was old is new again after an old cheese factory was rebuilt into an eight-room boutique hotel, restaurant, café and micro-dairy plant. 

A South Dakota dairy farm that frequently provides farm tours to industry members, farmers and consumers developed a solution to maximize visitor experience while minimizing the disturbance to cows and employees in their maternity barn. 

To the Sheridan family in Almo, Idaho, success comes in more ways than a profit. Read more below how the family, who operate Sheridan Ranch, value success through the people in their lives and the memories made along the way.

Cable Creek Farm is a popular destination for six days a year. Prospective Christmas tree hunters reserve time slots spread over two long weekends, beginning the day after Thanksgiving.

Growing a dairy business doesn’t always necessitate adding more cows. In the case of Pennsylvania’s Oregon Dairy Farm, it meant a dramatic reduction in cow numbers and building on custom cropping and agritourism enterprises. Interviewed in a recent Pennsylvania Center for Dairy Excellence (CDE) “Cow-Side Conversations” podcast, Maria Forry discussed her family farm’s move to create new and diverse revenue streams.

What happens when you combine dairy cows, on-farm processing, an old farmhouse, sunflowers, plenty of dairy products and consumers interested in learning more about where their food comes from? 

“I’m just a farmer,” says Andrew Donnell. But this farmer does much more than your typical farming operation. Diversification is a huge part of the success of Donnell Century Farm, and will continue to be for future generations.

“A family of teachers.”
That’s how Jill Flynn refers to her brood, who together own and operate Hidden Hollow Hideaway Cattle & Guest Ranch in the hills just outside Townsend, Montana, overlooking the Missouri River. Perhaps no one is more representative of that designation than Jill’s late husband, Kelly.