Practicing Farmers and Ranchers

Working farmers and ranchers who are known for their own farms, ranches and landholdings, including growers who proved a method or a record yield on their own land, ranchers and landowners who built large holdings, and farmers who took a dispute over seed or land rights into the courts. A person belongs here when the cited article describes them chiefly as someone who owned, ran or worked a farm or ranch, rather than as an agricultural scientist, an inventor, an elected official or the head of an agribusiness company or a cooperative. Their significance comes from how they farmed, what they grew or what happened to their land, and often from what other farmers later learned from them.