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Harvest in the Mid-West

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Video by Dan West From the filmmaker: During the fall of 2012, I was able to spend a day out in the Minnesota countryside taking in the experience of harvest. Combines that drive themselves, tractors that have tracks–not wheels, and a crew of incredibly hard working people is what I found. A. West Equipment (Darwin, [...] Read more »

Whispers from the Heartland

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Video by: Mark Anderson From the filmmaker: This is an Emmy award winning story that I produced with John Barr from KSTP-TV. This story reaches deeply into the plight of the American farmer and found one man who has become somewhat of a prophet for other farmers from the heartland. About Harvest, LLC shares stories [...] Read more »

All in the Family – Working 2012

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Family Farming for Five Generations Video by: Nick McNaughton From the filmmaker: Abbott Farm has been in the Abbott Family since the Civil War. The farm has seen quite a few changes over the years, and is in the midst of completing the latest change that includes a little bit of Agro-entertainment. But one question [...] Read more »

Red Soil

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Video by: José Maurício da Costa From the filmmaker: A short film showing through images the process of sugar cane extraction in the rural area of Brazil. The images was captured by Natalia Nunes and I next to her family small farm where we lived times ago. The infographics are illustrative and have only an [...] Read more »

How Blueberries Got to England

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I first met Jennifer Trehane of the Dorset Blueberry Company when she came to the Whitesbog Blueberry Festival in southern New Jersey in 2008. Whitesbog is the birthplace of what has become a global commercial blueberry industry. Dated March 1951, the letter seen below tells just part of the story about how commercial blueberry plants [...] Read more »

Farmers Expanding Markets

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New Life for Produce After the Farmers Markets This inspired video from preventionspeaks shares the story of what happens to the less-than-pretty vegetables that don’t make it to the farmers market. By re-purposing those vegetables, farmers have been able to effectively use and sell more from their fields. Video by: Preventionspeaks Read more »