Sara
Red Acre Farm
FARMERS’ VOICES
Understanding A Changing American West Through The People Who Work Its Land.
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Agriculture is often described through numbers: acres cultivated, water consumed, yields produced, land values, labor costs.
But numbers cannot tell us what it feels like to make a living from the land—or why one farmer chooses to stay, another changes how they sell, and another decides that producing more is not necessarily the same as doing better.
Farmers’ Voices is an oral history and field research project built around conversations with farmers, ranchers, and agricultural workers in Utah and Texas.
What began as an interest in agriculture soon became an inquiry into something larger: land, water, markets, labor, policy, ecology, and the different ways people try to keep small-scale agriculture possible.
The interviews are personal. The questions they raise are structural.
About Farmers’ Voices
“Farmers appeared everywhere in the agricultural history and policy research I was reading, but rarely in their own words. I started Farmers’ Voices because I wanted to understand what changes in agriculture looked like to the people actually living through them. I expected to learn about farming. Instead, every conversation opened into something larger—land, water, markets, policy, labor, and the question of what makes people keep working the land. I did not want this project to speak for farmers. I wanted to listen closely enough to understand how differently each person sees the same changing system.”
— Jack Huang, Founder & Researcher, Farmers’ Voices
The People Behind The Landscape
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Stephen
Splendor Valley Farms
Mitch
3 Springs Land & Livestock
Gene & Eileen
Yegua Creek Farms
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