Craig Elmore’s family still farms Elmore Desert Ranch, which his grandfather John Elmore — memorialized in a bust — amassed after moving to the Imperial Valley in 1908. Craig Elmore’s family history ...

At the Porter County Fair on Thursday, Ron Birky, of Morgan Township, said he retired as a farmer after 46 years. “I was raised on a farm,” he said, but that’s not a guarantee he would become a farmer ...

EAST TROY — Dr. Richard Quinney's great-grandparents began farming a few acres in Sugar Creek Township in 1868. After four generations on the farm, Quinney, photographed the artifacts to make a record ...

You may have seen stories lamenting that corporate agriculture is squeezing out the little guy. Family farms are disappearing, the headlines tell us, leaving “factory farms” to produce the bulk of our ...

This story is part of our Future Farmers series, highlighting the joys and hurdles of a career in agriculture today. You can read more of this series here. Dzap’l Gye’a̱win Skiik translates to busy ...

This story was originally published by ProPublica, a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power, and was co-published with The Desert Sun. Craig Elmore’s family history is the stuff of ...