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The New American Farmer, 2nd Edition
About
This Resource
After decades of working with farmers and ranchers across
the country, University of Missouri economist John Ikerd wanted a way
to convince others that what he was seeing — thriving family-run operations
making a profit, working in harmony with the environment and helping
to improve their communities — was no fluke. To him, the “new American
farm” was a place where producers considered the ramifications of their
practices on their financial, environmental and community goals, truly
making farming and ranching a feasible, even noble way of living. Ikerd
wanted to share their stories and dreamed of a project where he could
plunk a stack of farm profiles in front of every skeptic he encountered
and tell them that those farmers were finding ways to make sustainable
agriculture work and, more broadly, were redefining the American farm.
Ikerd began working with former New Farm magazine editor Craig
Cramer to develop a framework for the project. Cramer drew up a simple,
yet thorough architecture for the profiles and began assembling a long
list of potential farmers to feature before taking on a new assignment
at Cornell University. The SARE program took Ikerd’s vision and Cramer’s
groundwork and got to work.
Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education (SARE)