By Tom Parker “What if we could create a new system?” Missouri rancher and farmer Cody Holmes asked members of the Kansas Farmers Union and the Kansas Beginning Farmers Coalition during their annual convention in early December. His question wasn’t merely rhetorical. Holmes had asked himself the same question a thousand times, but answers remained [...]
Cody Holmes left home in 1975 at age 17 with his high school 4-H project of seven cows. That project has grown into what the Rockin H Ranch is today: a 1,000-acre cow/calf operation, on-farm market, cowsmilk and goatsmilk dairy, and cheesemaking operation. Cody and his wife Dawnnell operate an agri-tourism business on top of [...]
by Cody Holmes, featured presenter at KBFC Day 2014 One-thousand acres in southern Missouri, 300 beef cows, 400 sheep, 200 goats, a Jersey cow dairy, a goat dairy and cheese plant, 350 laying hens, 1,000 broilers, 120 hogs, a green house, a hoop house, five low tunnels and seven acres of produce make up [...]
by Cody Holmes, featured presenter at KBFC Day 2014 One-thousand acres in southern Missouri, 300 beef cows, 400 sheep, 200 goats, a Jersey cow dairy, a goat dairy and cheese plant, 350 laying hens, 1,000 broilers, 120 hogs, a green house, a hoop house, five low tunnels and seven acres of produce make up [...]
