Source: FARM PROGRESS, 11/25/16


In 2015, after seeing yet another year of unprofitable commodity prices, Zach Mykisen and his family decided it was time to head in a new direction. Mykisen farms 500 acres of corn, soybeans and sweet corn with two brothers and his father in Bancroft, Wis. Even in the best of times, the farm is too small to make commodity crops profitable, he says. “You need to have a niche.”

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