"My mother referred to it as the family computer farm, " says Blodgett, a master falconer and himself a father of eight.

FORBES: The human factor

Hispanic and Asian families crop up in the most unlikely places: Indian computer programmers in Plano or Austin, Mexican farm workers in the Dakotas, Asian entrepreneurs in Las Vegas.

ECONOMIST: The Americano dream

So, each Wednesday in the just-concluded spring semester, Anderson and a dozen other Missouri students crunched numbers in a campus computer lab, the male students' agrarian roots betrayed only by baseball caps sporting farm equipment logos.

NPR: Future Heads Of Family Farms Dig Into Financials