Kevin Ruyle is, by his own description, the "grinder" on the Kansas farm he runs with his brother-in-law, Thane Buss. "I have to stay busy. If you need someone to work 18 hours, that's me. Is that ADD?"

Every whiskey has a good story. Hayes Kelman tells one about Red Eye Whiskey.

Sims Cattle Co. sits in the Rock Creek Valley at the foot of the Snowy Mountain Range, west of Laramie, Wyoming, and 200 miles north of Denver. Elk Mountain rises 11,000 feet in the distance.

The legend of American agriculture has been one of farmers turning west for new ground--always west. Mark Lange looked east.

Bobby Morris heads out early on hot and humid Louisiana summer mornings to inspect his sugarcane fields. You can hear the cane growing, he says, more than an inch per day as its sword-shaped leaves rise toward 14 feet.