Organic and Non-GMO Farmer Profiles

Profit potential and soil health draw 4th generation corn-and-soybean farm into organics

By Steve Sinkula Chuck Thompson was tired of living hand-to-mouth. Like many farmers, he grew up on a traditional, corn-and-soybean operation in Humboldt, Iowa, and returned to it after college. Today, he and his brother farm with their father, making them the fourth generation of the family farm. But in the last decade, the Thompsons […]

True grits: Old-fashioned, non-GMO Southern comfort food rises again

Some traditions are best left untouched. Millennials and health-conscious consumers are showing a strong preference for clean, non-GMO, minimally processed foods—the “kind your grandmother would recognize.” It’s hard to imagine any food fitting that bill better than a corn conventionally grown with traditional breeding, with minimal use of chemical inputs, harvested by hand, and stoneground […]

Kalona Organics’ “feel good” family farms story

Iowa-based Kalona Organics produces organic dairy products using milk from Amish and Mennonite family farms

Central Illinois farm family honored as Organic Farmers of the Year

The Bishops of PrairiErth Farm near Atlanta, Illinois have been selected as the 2017 Organic Farmers of the Year, a national honor presented at the annual MOSES Organic Farming Conference in La Crosse, Wisconsin. This prestigious award recognizes organic farmers in the U.S. who practice outstanding land stewardship, innovation and outreach. Recipients are chosen by […]

Minnesota farmer turns to non-GMO seeds