The Cost of Sustainability Practices
Nancy Kavazanjian is a farmer from Wisconsin in the United States and a member of the Global Farmer Network. She talks here with Ben Fargher from Cargill about...
Nancy Kavazanjian
Our Soil, Our Strength
It may be easy to believe that growers are focused only on yield, but they're also working to improve soil health and protect water quality. Nancy Kavazanjian, ...
Presidential Notice of Farmers as Climate Change Solution Partners
When President Biden addressed Congress and the country last week, he did something I'd never heard a president do before: In a State of the Union address, he e...
USA Farm Tour-Prairie Strips
Nancy Kavazanjian, a farmer from Wisconsin, tells us about a new conservation method that's recently been added to their farm, prairie strips, also called filte...
Panama Canal: Even More Wonderful (and Important) Modern World Wonder
The American Society of Civil Engineers has called it one of the Seven Wonders of the Modern Worldand this summer, the Panama Canal became even more wonderfu...
Nancy Kavazanjian
Farmer, Wisconsin, United States
Nancy Kavazanjian is a Wisconsin farmer who helps manage day-to-day business matters for a 2000-acre (800 hectare) family row crop farm and country elevator where the emphasis is on preserving soil and managing resources in a sustainable manner. Kavazanjian grew up in suburban New York. Today she farms in Beaver Dam, Wisconsin with her husband Charles Hammer. Together they have two grown children and four grandchildren and are involved in local watershed and land-use planning initiatives in their area.