Mark Jackson: A personal story about farming and the future of agriculture

In 1890, Mark Jackson’s great-great-great-grandfather bought a plot of land in southern Iowa. Five generations later, Mark is still farming that same land but using some very different techniques. In this moving story that crosses generations, Mark shows us both how radically agriculture has changed since that time, and how some things have stayed exactly the same.

Mark is CEO of Jackson Farms LS, Inc. He is also the immediate past-president of the Iowa Soybean Association and currently serves as a National Director of the American Soybean Association. He is a fifth generation Iowa farmer who practices sustainable production and environmental responsibility in his modern family farming operations. He was one of the original farmers who pioneered sustainable soybean farming with Unilever. He believes that agriculture in the U.S. needs to continuously improve to meet ongoing sustainability challenges in order to have a direct and positive impact for the future of our world.

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[paulaswetnam]

I shutter to think, what our everyday, life, would be like, without our farmers. Willie Nelson tried to and did help with "Farm Aid", but still, the jealous other countries, come and take, or greed wins out, from spoiled and lazy offspring, that go off in the world, where their uppity friends are also. Maybe plant grapes, ok, sell wine. But the food on our tables didn't come from a printer, the farmers we might see? Look good with farmers hat and tan, the tight family gives thanks to God, and they are still together. Many 1% will still shrink. They need, strong back up.and to know, with love behind them in what they produce, Respect, for elders, and avoiding greedy temtation, their heavenly home will house the harvest, of the chosen ones of God's Children. I sincerely Thank them.i pray my grand and great grand children, pass on gratitude for them and the earlier American farmers. Schools should continue to offer F F A clubs, with rewards.

[eduardomen]

GMO dude, monocultivating the hell out of poor mother earth

[alerio]

WHat the fuck ? Is that dude seriously into that emotional sketch of grandpa family thing ? Your son will inherit the worst soil ever...