Graze Master Group

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

The Graze Master Group has compiled a list of issues and topics that sometimes inhibit farms, ranches, agricultural businesses, and rural communities from evolving in more fruitful directions.

You won’t see the photo of the series of women cradling each other’s descendants on any billboard advertising the future of agriculture. Yet, that photo, and the one on the left, is what moves me to not give up on the Heartland I love with all my heart.