“One thing that became prevalent from the very beginning is that for the last 150 years, previous generations of family members always diversified,” Michael Griva says. “They always had something going on to try to optimize according to growing conditions, weather conditions, or business climate. It’s like when they were growing grain in the early 1900s, they also had cattle, and sometimes they were able to use the byproduct of the grain … as feed for the cattle.” (Western FarmPress, 2018)