The Graduate Program and Sustainable Agriculture and Practical Farmers of Iowa invite you to join us for a screening of:

"Livestock on the Land"

with 

Nick Ohde

In broad-brush, “Livestock on the Land” is a story about regenerative grazing and its promise for the Iowa landscape. Up close, however, it’s a story about people – the farmers driven by love of family, land and livestock to seek more resilient solutions, and the community that emerges when livestock are on the land. The film goes beyond the science to show how livestock are central threads connecting people, diversifying farms, protecting soil and water, and anchoring rural communities. When livestock leave, so do the people. “Livestock on the Land” shows the reverse: how livestock can repeople our rural communities by giving farmers a chance to get started, grow businesses, provide for their families, work together and bring back the next generation to sustain the cycle.

Nick Ohde is the communications and marketing director at Practical Farmers of Iowa, a farmer-led non-profit that equips farmers to build resilient farms and communities. In his role, he oversees all communications and marketing work and ensures that farmers are the voice of all PFI outreach. Prior to Livestock on the Land, he produced and filmed a variety of videos featuring a diversity of Practical Farmers of Iowa members focused on a variety of topics such as diversified crop rotation, organic weed control, cover crops and more.

He grew up in rural southeast Iowa, outside of Wapello, hunting and fishing in the Iowa and Mississippi River bottoms. He has a BA degree from the University of Iowa in 2008, where he majored in Journalism and English, and an MS degree from Iowa State University in 2011, where he was a graduate of the Graduate Program in Sustainable Agriculture. His research interests focused on soil erosion, water quality, and the use of conservation practices.

From 2012-2013, Nick worked for a non-profit organization in rural Ecuador, where he worked with farmers, interns, and volunteers on rural community development projects. Before joining PFI, Nick worked as the kitchen manager at Cafe Beaudelaire in Ames.

Documentary Screening: Livestock on the Land Video (Echo360)