Des Keller

In a scramble to get crops in the ground and growing during the wet springs of recent years, the Reuschels moved to strip-tillage and have kept the practice up ever since.

Whether the South Carolina business up for sale on May 25 goes for more than $2 million or $200,000, real estate broker Jim Woltz hopes it is purchased by farmers.

The varieties Lyda nurtures for the cannabidiol, or CBD, company he helped found, Healthy Harvesting LLC and its CBD product line, HempOfye.

Shari Rogge-Fidler is a former investment banker, strategy and agribusiness consultant, cofounder of an organic food company, and a fifth-generation farmer from Nebraska. 

This farmer got started through Iowa’s Farm On (now AgLink) program.

Phillip Jensen used a USDA Farm Service Agency microloan to fund this 30×72-foot hoop greenhouse so he could grow vegetables.