Cassidy Johnston Of Not Your Average Rancher On The Future Of Modern American Farming

An Interview With Sean Freedman

… You need to know what you’re doing. Practically, you need the skills to do the job but also know that you can’t know everything so never stop learning!

Modern farming is actually very different from common conceptions. Farming today is dramatically different from the farming done a few decades ago. In this interview series called The Future Of Modern American Farming, we are exploring the modern technological changes that American farms have been making. We are also exploring how farmers are adjusting to the supply chain challenges, the challenges of climate change, and the challenges of sustainable farming.

As a part of this series, we had the pleasure of interviewing Cassidy Johnston.

Cassidy Johnston grew up in town, fell in love with ranching and a cowboy (in that order) and now lives on a ranch in the mountains of southern Colorado with her husband, three young sons, lots of horses and dogs and cattle, and a wayward barn cat called Waffles. As a first-generation rancher with an usual background, she looks to help close the gap between where she grew up and where she…