Graze Master Group

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. 

From Bloomberg article linked below: ‘ … homesteaders gathered the buffalo bones. It was easy work: Children could do it. Carted to town, a ton of bones fetched a few dollars. Sent to rendering plants and furnaces in the big industrial cities, that same ton was worth between $18 and $27. Boiled, charred, crushed or powdered, it was worth as much as $60."