Graze Master Group

There are old, young men in farm country who it seems like just yesterday were farm kids. Now they’re getting far too tired and worn out, too young and too fast. 

As of late, in my business endeavors trying to bring new ag ideas forward, I hear one phrase from a certain echelon of farmers more than anything else. Look, I get it. Money is needed to live. But within a split second of explaining a new ag practice or concept, it’s tunnel vision dollar signs immediately front and center. With not a second to spare, they’re like, “Well, show me the money.”

This article is in appreciation of my friend and mentor, Stan Jensen, who is known by many as, “the father of drought tolerant corn.” This is not to replace or forget the “mothers of all corn,” who walked the earth selecting the best of her corn among indigenous peoples here and across the world for generations. Not at all, and that’s why even beginning to really write about all of this is very difficult. So, I choose my words carefully (albeit it very much fumbling along the