With this resource students will be introduced to Clint Hickman the latest operator of Hickman’s Eggs in Arizona. Heartland hens lay close to 70-billion eggs for market every year. To keep up with demand, Grandma Hickman’s Golden Eggs keeps their birds busy.
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With this resource students will be exposed to wheat farmers in North Dakota. The North Dakota Mill & Elevator in Grand Forks is a marvel of modern agricultural complexity and efficiency. It makes its owners proud, and through an unusual twist of history, those owners happen to be all the people of North Dakota.
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With this resource students will meet Randy Oliver, a commercial bee keeper. In this video Randy explains the importance of the bees in agriculture, and the impact pollinators have on production agriculture.
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With this resource students will be presented with the question: which is best? - fresh, frozen, or canned products. America’s Heartland correspondent Jason Shoultz takes a look at the choices.
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With this resource students are introduced to the Fornstrom family who knows that you have to be versatile to be successful in agriculture today. The Fornstroms have been farming and ranching several thousand acres of Wyoming farmland since Granddad began growing potatoes on the farm way back in the 1930’s. Today, the Fornstroms run three separate sheep and cattle feedlots on the property
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With this resource students will meet an Ohio farm family whose work focuses on agriculture at home and abroad. The Surber farm family takes a comprehensive approach in turning out agricultural products. Not only will students find them in the field growing corn, wheat and soybeans, they also run a feed company and raise hogs for customers overseas.
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With this resource students will be introduced to newlyweds Dustin and Justyne Noble who started raising prize-winning goats as a hobby. Their hobby has been so successful that the couple decided to use their farming skills to turn out goat’s milk and artisanal cheese.
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With this resource students will be introduced to siblings Jill and Eric Benson, owners of a large egg producing company who are making dramatic changes in how their hens are housed. Students will learn how the family is spending millions of dollars to provide dramatically different cages for their thousands of chickens.
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With this resource students will meet third generation farmer Landon Moore and his family who grow work soybeans on their fifteen hundred acres of farmland inherited from Landon’s grandparents. Students will see how the Moore family works together raising soybeans along with other crops.
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With this resource students will be introduced to Jay Hardwick and family who have been raising cotton in Louisiana for decades. Jay uses GPS satellite information to harvest thousands of acres of cotton. After being hauled to the cotton gin, the cotton will be combed and cleaned, and ready for use in a variety of products. Students will trace this key product from field to fabric, and learn about the surprising byproducts made from cotton. Students will also learn how new technologies and research are making cotton fields more pest-resistant and productive than ever before.
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With this resource students will meet Jack Seiler and his son Ryan who grow cotton near Blythe, California, carrying on a family farming tradition that goes back decades. Farming cotton is a tough job, and deciding when to pick is a delicate dance. Farmers must weigh the factors of sunshine, heat, and moisture, dodging seasonal rains that might adversely affect their harvest and yield. When the harvest finally begins, students quickly get a sense of the challenges facing cotton farmers.
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With this resource students will be introduced to Jim Mitchell, a Delaware dairy farmer who is adding value to his product, by turning milk into ice cream at Woodside Farm Creamery.
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With this resource students will meet Nebraska corn farmer Alan Tiemann. The road to some creative uses for corn starts here in Nebraska on Alan's farm but is a journey that takes this commodity halfway around the world.
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With this resource students will be introduced to the Chinn family hog farm in Clarence, Missouri who use a high tech operation that turns out thousands of hogs each year
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With this resource students will be introduced to Barry Evans and his family who grow cotton and sorghum on 2000 acres near Kress, Texas. Today Barry is getting the ground ready and nature has some threatening weather that may affect his final crop outcome.
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With this resource students will be introduced to the state of Vermont known the world over for some outstanding dairy products. Vermont is already well known for its maple syrup. Students will learn that Vermont also claims the largest number of cheese-makers in the country and Cabot Creamery, in the town of Cabot, is by far the largest in Vermont.
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With this resource students will be introduced Rob Litch and his uncle who saw the potential of raising poultry in New Haven, Vermont. His farm has some 20 thousand turkeys and 75 thousand chickens, in a free range environment.
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With this resource students will be taken to North Dakota where wheat growers harvest some 300-million bushels each and every year.Students will be exposed to the concept of hardilness and learn about how the weather can impact the growth of the wheat grain.
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With this resource students will be introduced to a Central Michigan dairy farm during the sub-zero winter common to that state. Farmers struggle to keep their animals fed and healthy while fighting off bitter cold. It’s lonesome and the tasks seem never-ending. So why can’t the dairyman we visit in mid-January imagine doing anything else?
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This online agricultural magazine for kids contains articles about the dairy cattle production industry.
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