Offrange writers produced some excellent stories in 2025, ranging from the thoughtful and compelling to the heart-breaking and dramatic.

The Best Offrange Art of 2025

After feeling like an outcast among cowboys, a Wyoming writer considers who the outsiders really were.

Non-Rancher in a Ranching Town

Gardening wheat is reconnecting neighborhoods to their grain, sprouting “pancake patches” and a home-baked way of living. 

Wheat in Your Backyard

There’s been a push to restore whole and 2 percent milk to school meals ever since they were disallowed in 2012. That effort is about to pay off.

Getting Whole Milk Back in the Cafeteria

Some studies suggest the Bovaer supplement, intended to reduce methane emissions, may reduce dairy cows‘ feeding behaviors and milk. The cause of the reported poisonings remains unclear.

 Feed Supplement Triggers Reports of Cow Poisoning

“There is a lot of divine design around reindeer.”

Herders at the Edge of Extinction

Solving agriculture’s plastic problem isn’t easy — particularly for organic farmers — but some growers are finding ways to be less wasteful.

The Farmers Trying to Ditch Plastic 

Wildfires have become the new norm in the Pacific Northwest — where most of our hops are grown. Researchers are digging into the short- and long-term effects.

Smoke Gets in Your Beer

Researchers are exploring many ways to produce ammonia-based fertilizer without using fossil fuels — even pulling it from thin air.

The Quest for Green Ammonia

During the pandemic’s supply chain disruptions, at least 18 tribes in the U.S. opted to vertically integrate. Several years later, they are thriving.

Sovereignty Matters: Native Americans Build Their Own Meat Processing Facilities

Though the $70 billion palm oil industry has made real progress in reducing deforestation, biotech companies are trying to brew up synthetic alternatives. 

Can Palm Oil Ever Be Replaced? And Should It?

As Vermont farmers and ranchers head into winter after three years of weather catastrophes, they’re looking for emergency funding, better on-farm resilience — and whatever hay you can spare.

Floods, Then Floods, Then More Floods, Then Drought

In a farming community that has accepted residential solar but isn’t sure about large commercial facilities, the Thanksgiving meal is coming directly from the solar industry. 

Turkeys Grazing Under Solar Panels

Bad things can happen when domestic and wild sheep mix. A new collaborative research project in Montana is trying to come up with new solutions to an intractable disease problem.

Bighorn Bacteria

In 2024, an Offrange article suggested the traditional model for Community Supported Agriculture may be on its last legs. One CSA manager begs to differ.

Making a Case for the CSA

We produce almost 10 million metric tons of this commodity grain each year. With the Chinese export market collapsing, some growers are eyeing the African continent.

U.S. Sorghum Farmers Look to Africa

Manure management on cattle farms is key to stemming antibiotic resistance, new research finds. 

Risky Manure

The Miyawaki method of reforestation inserts small, densely packed wild acreage into urban environs. It’s proving wildly successful.

Make Your Own Micro Forest

Today’s kid lit on farming spotlights its diverse reality instead of yesteryear’s cartoonish tropes.

All Grown Up: Farm Books for Kids

Christina Yergat

Much of the United States’ winter produce is grown in one economically depressed desert county in California with a century-long agricultural history, where a multi-billion dollar lithium mining industry looms on the horizon. Will Imperial Valley agriculture survive?

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