Harvest of Change
Iowa farm families confront a nation in transition

The farm family, with deep community roots and generations living close to the soil, finds itself at the center of profound demographic, technological, economic and environmental change. Over five days, meet four Iowa farm families navigating this changing world. And, in a journalistic first, step into the century-old Dammann farm through 360-degree video and virtual reality.

This is their story.

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A five-part series
Credits
Harvest of Change Series
  • Reporting: Sharyn Jackson and Donnelle Eller
  • Video and Photography: Christopher Gannon
  • Editing: Carol Hunter, Kelli Brown and Adam Wilson
  • Editor: Amalie Nash
Virtual Reality
  • Executive Producer: Mitch Gelman
  • Producer: Anthony DeBarros
  • Associate Producers: Kurt Muller and Dan Pacheco
  • Modeling and Design: Ray Soto
  • Iconography: Margaret Haag
  • Development: Irfan Uraizee and Akshay Karthik
  • Reporting and Editing: Sharyn Jackson, Carol Hunter
  • Video and Photography: Christopher Gannon, Robert Padavick; and Adrian Velasquez de Velasco and Craig Gilbert of Total Cinema 360
  • Data Analysis: Sarah Frostenson
  • Narrator: Les Stroud
Series Page
  • Site Design and Art Direction: Kristin DeRamus
  • Site Development: Jon Dang