The family farm lies at the heart of our national identity, and yet its future
is in peril. Rick Hammond grew up on a farm, and for forty years he has
raised cattle and crops on his wife’s fifth-generation homestead in Nebraska,
in hopes of passing it on to their four children. But as the handoff nears, their
family farm—and their entire way of life—are under siege on many fronts, from
shifting trade policies, to encroaching pipelines, to climate change.
Following the Hammonds from harvest to harvest, Ted Genoways explores the
rapidly changing world of small, traditional farming operations. He creates a
vivid, nuanced portrait of a radical new landscape and one family’s fight to
preserve their legacy and the life they love.