<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><item href="/pre-go-live-resources/_migration/2026-08-21/magazine/spring-2011/organic-approach-family-farming.html" dsn="news"><pubDate/><title>An Organic Approach to Family Farming</title><excerpt>It’s raining in Montana, the fields are flooded and Casey Bailey ’03 is a month late planting his crops. He doesn’t know what to expect from the weather. “Farming is uncertain, especially organic farming,” he says. “It’s experimental, unpredictable and tricky.”</excerpt><author/><image>
            
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