my name is Ashley jess's and I have been
living and working here since two
thousand thirteen um Clint jessen and
I've been here my entire life started
farming on my own in two thousand and
we're a hundred percent certified
organic farm in eastern Laramie County
and the Pine Bluff Wyoming we raise
organic wheat everything's organic I
guess so beans we raise pinto beans
black beans white beans millet hey
millet and pro so millet and
occasionally a barley crop some lentils
things like that anything that we can
sell when I first started out in organic
my neighbors thought I was crazy um and
I think as time has progressed they
obviously see that that's not
necessarily the case negative negative
we get a little slack from some of our
no-till neighbors that we're doing it
wrong or you know their way is better
than ours or something like that but I
think in the the longer that we've been
here the neighbors have really kind of
embraced it neighbors like I mean they
keep there's organic because they see
that that we're doing and we're able to
buy their greiner keep it going in the
area so I think in the long term it's
been good it's a huge industry and we're
still just farmers and we got a lot of
the same conferences and we still have
the same some of the same issues just
how we handle them are different we have
what we call wasteland it's it's pretty
much an old riverbed washouts that were
too poor to raise crops on we have been
working with pheasants forever and the
nrcs in the conservation district
and so we worked with pheasants forever
and they came out and planted 15,000
trees for Habitat space put in a drip
system water well and conservation
kicked in a bunch of money from Laramie
County and they put in a guzzler which
is a year-round constant water source
for wildlife and it slopes down into
this tank it's a big roof that's tilted
and all the water runs down into this
concrete thing that deer and birds and
everything can come in coyotes yeah they
we've hit we've had some problems with
their definitely yeah it's for
everything not you can't be that
selective about it but yeah I would say
here in southeast Wyoming we are a
hundred percent weather dependent just
right rain is obviously perfect too much
rain is bad too little rain is bad
obviously the the worst is hail our
biggest nemesis you know a lot of things
in farming are out of your control and I
think that's probably the biggest thing
or even softly I mean there's a lot of
things that you just cannot control you
have to adjust your management style to
still try to be successful somehow
despite all the factors that you can't
control and being organic it's harder to
manipulate things like we have a
dependent on nature essentially because
we can't spray something if it's not
going our way we have too much moisture
and too many weeds we can't just drive
over it and I make it make them go away
so I think they're significantly less
tools in the toolbox for us to use being
organic during the winter months we try
to leave our stubble um you know exposed
to catch snow and also to prevent the
wind from just blowing it to Nebraska so
we can leave that stubble height then
leave that residue and try to get as
much moisture retention as we can using
cover crops and things like that
Australian winter piece for plow down
and things like that that will intercede
with in the wheat stubble
and then plow it down the next spring so
there's a lot of things we try to make
sure going into winter that every acre
has something on it whether it's a new
crop planted or it's a stubble from the
prior crop and then that way it just is
so much better when we start out in the
spring and it catches snow and a few
tumbleweeds as well this is our
headquarters where we do everything out
of a repairs equipment repairs to
marketing and phone calls and office
work our grain bins are also obviously
very important we have them in several
locations throughout the the farm as a
whole we have several all of our
employees get housing and so we have
several four or five farmsteads that
we've purchased throughout the years and
put our employees there if two
homesteads life and in homesteads that
are pretty cool yeah and the kids just
like to go there and rummage around and
see what they could find when I got here
it was run I guess more like a just a
family farm and when I came in I really
wanted to run it like a business and
then on top of and then becoming
certified organic trying to go out and
do marketing and be known not even not
locally and nationally but
internationally as a good source of
organic ingredients wholesale organic
ingredients for Kellogg's and Kashi and
chipotle things like that so I guess I
took more of the management side rail
capacity I'll capacity we're gonna have
to be able to to load real cars now so
that's that's big for us and our
ultimate goal I guess would to be bring
in our own source of compost and chicken
litter from California clean out the
cars reloaded with organic wheat and
send them back out or any organic
product I think would really like to
expand our services not only
producers but for buyers internationally
whether that's shipping to a port and
getting it on a ship to get to Japan or
Europe somewhere I think the rail
capacity is really going to help we like
to expand that keeping people educated
on organics and local farmers and I mean
farmers everywhere like I'm kind of we
touched on a little bit ago like it'd be
nice if more people knew that they could
its profitable to be organic in it it's
worth it if they if they work hard at it
mmm I just feel like people don't
understand exactly what that means and
so I think if people knew that on that
on the back of a box of organic cereal
they can tell you what field that came
out of like it would be you know the
traceability accountability you can take
that lot number on the back of the
cereal and trace it all the way back to
that it came from our farm and that on
our farm we can follow that paperwork
and it can be traced back to field
number 199 and it was planted on sep
tember 4th 2010 and it was stored in bin
number 8 and followed that one you can
follow that one kernel from from our
farm that one seed to the box of cereal
that was sold at a safeway in Delaware
somewhere so I think that that we cool
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