GFN sustainability Food company messaging 2021
What would farmers say if they had a chance to talk directly to food company executives? Quite a bit, as it turns out. Farmers sell through a value chain and of...
Jennie Schmidt
United states-Precision Ag
Jennie Schmidt is a farmer on the Eastern Shore of Maryland and a member of the Global Farmer Network. In this Virtual Farm Tour, she shows us the technology sh...
Definition of Sustainability from Global Farmer Network farmers
Craige Mackenzie, Cheryl Hazenberg, Gabriel Carballal, Maria Beatriz Pilu Giraudo, Alanna Koch, Sudhanshu Kumar and Jennie Schmidt
What does sustainability mean to farmers? And what does it look like on their farms? These seven members of the Global Farmer Network tell us.
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Schmidt Adds Value to Each Acre
Jennie Schmidt, a member of the Global Farmer Network, is a registered dietician turned farmer who received the 2021 Top Producer Trailblazer Award. Visit her f...
Conservation Q&A with jennie schmidt
Global Farmer Network member Jennie Schmidt is a conservation steward. She uses conversation principles on her farm in the Chesapeake Bay watershed in Maryland....
All Eyes on Conservation: Can You Defend Your Operational Choices?
Global Farmer Network member Jennie Schmidt farms in the Chesapeake Bay watershed in Maryland. With no-till, cover crops and precision fertilizer placement as d...
Where food grows, bugs go
Jennie Schmidt, Maryland, a member of the Global Farmer Network, shares how she produces wine grapes, tomatoes, green beans and tofu and the technology she uses...
Supporting Science and Innovation are the Best Defense
The reports of the death of dicamba are greatly exaggerated-but farmers and consumers ought to worry about the death of innovation.
Last month a three-judge pan...
USA Farm Tour-Tomatoes
Jennie Schmidt is a Maryland farmer. In this video she is cultivating tomatoes which are grown for the canning industry.
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Specialty Crop Interests Rise Amid Trade Tensions
Specialty crops that end up on your grocery store shelf are part of the diversification that has helped Schmidt farms stay relevant in the face of changing weat...
Jennie Schmidt
Farmer, Maryland, USA
Jennie is a third generation farmer. The family farm grows grains, vegetables and wine grapes on the Eastern Shore of Maryland. The farm's mission is to practice "synergistic farming" using the best of all farming methods to create healthy soils and sustain healthy food production.