Posts Tagged: 'Farm Life'

Bale With Confidence

“There are only a few things we can control,” says hay grower Brett Bunker about farming. “So anything I can do to give me an advantage, I need to do it.” Bunker says he gets the edge he needs with...

A Father’s Guidance

Steve Snider still follows the advice of his late father and plans to hand it off, along with the family farm, to the next generation. Winter farm work in Lerna, Ill., was typically slow. So, Bill Snider encouraged his teenage...

Sweet Grapes

The Fussell family and sweet wine fans have turned Duplin Winery into the biggest muscadine operation in America. A fleet of Massey Ferguson utility tractors help them get the job done. If muscadine grapes could talk, they might sound a...

Under Cover

In exchange for a little TLC, Rich Bennett’s fields produce healthy yields of grain, while saving him fertilizer, herbicide, fuel and time. Rich Bennett has gone old school. Like generations before him, he uses cover crops. As a result, he...