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Young, beginning farmers work to bring small farming back to Wisconsin Locally sourced, sustainable foods give upstarts a chance to find footing Nick Westby, a 25-year-old farmer, operates a 25-acre farm in Rio pasture raising 5,000 chickens. (Photo courtesy of OrgaNick Pastures) Nick Westby dropped out of UW-Oshkosh because he knew what he wanted to do and it didn’t require a college degree in athletic training. In 2018, he and his fiance, Holly Hornback, started OrgaNick Pastures which he says is Wisconsin’s first certified humane, organic and pasture-raised chicken farm.  Across the Dairy State, massive factory farms are arguing in court for their right to dump manure into the water supply and multi-generational family farmers are facing the cross pressures of trying keep up in an arms race and the risk of losing the family’s heritage to crippling debt. But the 25-year-old Westby and a group of young and beginning farmers all over Wisconsin are proving the prevailing

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