Bill Beaman

The Beamans own and operate a livestock and grain farm located in Southwest Iowa. Purchased in 1982, the farm has survived:  the "Farm Crisis" of the eighties, a 1986 bank failure, the 1988 drought, the floods of 1993, and too many other dilemmas to mention. Through it all, the Beaman family has maintained a sustainable farming operation, raising livestock using grass-based pasture production and a grain, legume crop rotation. Their farm, like all of Iowa's farms, has a million stories to tell.

Bill Beaman loves to write and is passionate about sustainable farming operations and how they can become accessible to new, young, beginning farmers. Bill shares information about their farm and philosophies online as “The Iowa Farmer”.