The Grass Whisperer

Troy Bishopp, affectionately known as “The Grass Whisperer”, is a 35 year well-seasoned grass farmer, a grasslands advocate, and a voice for grassfed livestock producers to the media, consumers, restaurateurs and policy-makers. Troy owns and manages Bishopp Family Farm in Deansboro, NY with his understanding wife, daughters, grandchildren and parents. In addition to farming, Bishopp takes this passion and work ethic to the Madison County Soil and Water Conservation District and the Upper Susquehanna Coalition and directs grazing assistance and practical holistic land management concepts to hundreds of area farmers. He’s also a professional speaker and a free-lance writer/photographer for Lee Newspapers, OnPasture.com, and other regional and national media outlets.

A new column in Lancaster Farming

“Connection” Greetings from the East, I’m Troy Bishopp, Central NY grass farmer of 40 years, Pop Pop to my grandchildren, husband to an understanding wife and the original “Grass Whisperer”, who needed a moniker to open up doors in Washington, D.C. I practice the art of “Linger Grazing” where we observe the little things and …

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It’s 3am again

I look at what I’ve written. The stark words and the waded-up Kleenexes are my therapy for the day. On this morning another milestone of my brother Scott passes. He would have been 59 years old.

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