BY JUSTIN FRITSCHER
After his presidency, James Madison and his wife, Dolley, retired to Montpelier, where he was an enthusiastic farmer, applying the best practices he’d researched to raising wheat and tobacco.
From Mount Vernon to Monticello, many of the key conservation practices that USDA recommends producers use on their farms have roots with our founding farmers, including presidents such as George Washington, Thomas Jefferson and Abraham Lincoln as well as innovators such as Ben Franklin.