Down to the Sea
America's farmers face many challenges: rising costs and shrinking profits. Maryland’s Chesapeake Bay watermen may be among the most hard-pressed of the Heartland’s food producers.  Yolanda Vazquez goes crabbing in threatening weather with a Maryland fisherman for perspective on the past and future of one of America’s earliest fisheries.

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High Country Ranching
The ranching life style in the Heartland is based on generations of tradition. But in some parts of Colorado’s high plains, a few ranchers have elected to break away from the herd. They tell Paul Ryan they’ve found a better way to ranch – by trading in their cattle for a few hundred animals whose ancestors have been wandering these plains for thousands of years.

New Jersey Fresh
It’s an interesting time for farmers who want to sell locally.  Consumers throughout the Heartland are more often looking for locally-produced food. That’s true in the nation’s most crowded state: New Jersey. A state-wide marketing campaign is helping farmers do more than just sell their goods to local consumers – it’s saving their farms. 

                       

Additional production and promotion assistance is provided by
The American Soybean Association, National Corn Growers Association, National Cotton Council, U.S. Grains Council,
National Association of Wheat Growers, and the National FFA Organization.