In fall 2023, three equestrians launched Boss Mares Inc. to better support entrepreneurial women in the Western world through workshops and grants.

Virginia-based nonprofit Restore the Harvest has created an innovative livestock curriculum to enact systemic change in impoverished areas.

Ranchers on the border frequently sharing their land with a host of uninvited immigrants, drug runners, human traffickers, and cartels. 

From uninvited MS-13 gang encounters to battling border complexities and environmental perils, Jim and Sue Chilton share their stories from the border.

Teresa Ervin-Springs and Kevin Springs manage TKO Farming in Mississippi, while also helping to ease the learning curves in ag through Ancestral BeKin.

Laura Ann Pollack, who works at Healthy Chesapeake, encourages kids to “try the rainbow” in a food program she started called Color Your Plate.

Melanie Kirby of Zia Queenbees Co., focuses on breeding queen bees to provide beestock for beekeepers in New Mexico and beyond.

Sage Hagan of Tierra Sagrada Farms, a recipient of the 2023 Brighter Future Fund, brings his Native American values and practices to his New Mexico business.

Through innovation and diversifying with niche products, the Steensmas and Diepersloots are blazing the trail for dairy farmers of the future.

American Farmland Trust, a nonprofit organization with over 40 years of experience in helping farmers, ranchers, and others in agriculture maintain and preserve their farmland, is helping veterans transition into the agricultural sector through their Brighter Future Fund (BFF) grant program. The Brighter Future Fund provides direct support to farmers and ranchers across the country. […]