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Ben Stern stands in a cornfield on his farm near Mindoro, Wisconsin. Stern, who lives in Joliet, Montana, purchased the 205-acre farm three years ago.
Ben Stern has a good crop of soybeans this year, he says. When he purchased the property, the fields were planted in hemp and was a ‘plastic wasteland.’ It took a year to remove all the plastic and tubing.
Ben Stern has a variety of 50 apple trees. He plans to fence them in, he says, to keep the deer out.
A creek system with multiple waterfalls runs through Ben Stern’s property, which is located near the Black River in western Wisconsin.
Ben Stern raises pheasants to release on his property. He recently lost many to predators making their way into his enclosure, he says.
Ben Stern and his wife, Heather Kleckner-Stern, are owners of a barn turned ‘barndominium.’ They used old barn boards for the inside walls. The original farm house is visible to the right.
A Tactacam trail camera stands in Ben Stern’s field of clover. He invented the first Tactacam camera in 2012, he says, and started the Tactacam company in 2013.
Ben Stern stands next to a test pole of Tactacam cameras on his western-Wisconsin farm. The camera at the top, the Defend 360, he says, is used by farmers and ranchers to monitor livestock.
“To me, farming isn’t just about the ‘ag,’ it’s about the whole picture,” Ben Stern says.
Sarah Pfaff-Cavadini
Sarah Pfaff-Cavadini and her husband, Tim Cavadini, enjoy their 175-acre farm near Mindoro, Wisconsin, where they raise registered-Angus and Simmental beef cattle as well as horses and other small animals.
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