Climate Land Leaders: How to Conserve and Protect Your Land with Teresa OpheimCorn is growing in parts of North Dakota where it didn’t used to grow. Citrus production has fallen 90% over the past two decades in Florida. Other areas have dealt with record rainfall, higher heat, or drought like they have never experienced before. Has the behavior of humans caused permanent alterations in the planet’s weather systems? Is this somehow just an extended weather pattern that will subside? There ...| AmericanFarmlandNews
Champaign Berry Farm: Owners Hope More Farmers Choose to Grow BerriesThey didn’t start with black raspberries, peaches, gooseberries, or currants. But they also didn’t know that customers would drive several hours to fill a basket fresh from the farm. Mike and Cathy Pullins adjusted their business plans for Champaign Berry Farm in Urbana, Ohio. They hope that other farmers do, too.“We’re not gonna live forever,” Mike Pullins told American Farmland Owner as he sat next to his wife, ...| AmericanFarmlandNews
A Montana Man’s Trip to Try to Save His Solar Business: Ralph WaltersSince a Wyoming farm boy who expected a longer career as a lighting technician for film and television never anticipated that he would end up owning a solar business with his wife in Montana, it is perhaps fitting that he took an expected trip to Washington, D.C. to fight for the future of the industry that he now treasures.“It's just a really neat technology,” Ralph Walters told American Farmland Owner from his office...| AmericanFarmlandNews
