Midwest Region Farm & Ranch Blogs

Looking for food production information? Want to to talk to the people behind your food plate to get the facts?  Confused about what’s happening in the business of raising food, fuel, feed and fiber? Don’t get your information from an English professor at Berkley in Food Inc., the Humane Society of the United States or others promoting food fads. Gain firsthand perspective from the people who are working with land and animals to fill your plate, clothe you and fuel your cars.

East, South, Midwest, Central, West

Arkansas

• Because the West wasn’t Won on Salad
• Kickin’ Cowchips
• Sitting in the Pasture
• Spotted Cow Review

Illinois

• Confessions of a Farm Wife
• Farm and Ranch Country
• Kelly Robertson Farms
• My Generation
• Willow Lea Stock Farm

Indiana

• 3 Kids and Lots of Pigs
• Alarm Clock Wars
• The Farmer’s Life
• Four Leaf Clover Tales
• Hoosier Farm Babe Tell Tails
• Single Ag Daddy
• This Small Farm
• Two Maids a Milking
• Walking the Off-Beaten Path

Iowa

• Corn, Beans, Pigs and Kids
• Corn Fields and Tractor Wheels
• Life as an Iowa Farm Wife
• Fishback Family Farms
• JJB Cattle Company
• The Mitchell Farm

Kentucky

• Farming America
• Pearl Snaps’ Ponderings

Michigan

• Cherry Farmer’s Blog
• Dairy Discovery at SwissLane Farms
• Dairy Innovation
• Farming in the Shade
• Knolltop Farm Wife Blog
• The Counting Sheep Farm
• Through the Windshield
• Truth or Dairy

Minnesota

• Circle the Wagons
• Cow Spots and Tales
• Cows, Kids and a Little Bit of Chaos
• Meyer Dairy
• My Wheat Farm
• Orange Patch Dairy
• Pork Power Blog
• Zweber Family Farm News

Missouri

• Chris Chinn: My Farm, My Family, My Story
• Farm Photo of the Day
• Off the Farm & On the Road
• Semi View
• The Bacon Blogger

Tennessee

• Life and Times of a Rural Doc and Farmers Wife
• Life at Cloud 9 Ranch
• Mommy Doctor Farmer
• The Farmer’s Perspective

Wisconsin

• Curious Farmer
• Fourth Generation Farm Wife
• Katie’s Cow “Tails”
• Rural Route 2
• The Dairy Dude

Policy of Inclusion: This list of blogs has been aggregated by MPK to help those who are looking for information about how their food is raised, in the interest of connecting all sides of the dinner plate.  People who blog about their life on a farm or ranch are those who are listed.  Please contact her if you’d like to be added to the list or have a favorite rancher or farmer who blogs.  A separate list for those who advocate from their various roles in agriculture can be found at the Agvocate Blog List.