Posts Tagged ‘alfalfa’
Kansas Organic Farmer’s Profitable Operation Bypasses Traditional Market System Entirely
by Roger Blobaum Bennie Unruh of Aulne, Kansas, is an organic farmer who has developed health food market outlets for all his grain and beef and bypasses the traditional marketing system entirely. In additional to producing grain and cattle on a farm that has been in his family since 1872, he has been a registered…
Read MoreThree Nebraska Organic Farmers Beat Worst Drought Since the 1930s
by Roger Blobaum Several large family-type organic farmers in the Fremont, Nebraska, area have been producing lots of grain and livestock profitably without agricultural chemicals. In 1974 this eastern Nebraska sector was hit by the worst drought since the Dust Bowl days of the mid-1930s. It was turned into a government-declared disaster area by searing…
Read MoreSouth Dakota Organic Livestock Producers Tell Their Veterinarian: ‘We Didn’t Switch Veterinarians: We Just Don’t Need You Anymore’ 1972-1975
By Roger Blobaum A strong belief that caring for the land means farming without chemicals has maintained the high productivity of a South Dakota crop and livestock farm for the family that has operated it since it was homesteaded. Walter Hobbie, who now operates the original farm northwest of Flandreau, has lived on it since…
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