31/12/2009
The Hager family own a dairy farm in the USA. We follow their lives through the four seasons.
The Hager Family
Not so long ago, most people in the US were farmers. But now only about one in a hundred works the land. And yet farmers and ranchers are as important as ever - they're the stewards of almost half the land in North America. And most of the country's agriculture is still run by families.
The Hager family own a 700 acre dairy farm in Massachusetts.
Chip and Sherry Hager run the farm, along with their daughter Kim and son-in-law Aaron, and another son, Todd. Both Kim and Aaron are college graduates with degrees in agriculture.
John Biewen (bee-win) of the centre for Documentary Studies at Duke University followed the family through the different farming cycles of the year.
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