Designed by Farmers, For Famers: The Better Way to Fence

Mar 28, 2025
By Farms.com Interns

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Looking for a smarter, more affordable way to secure your pasture? Discover how PlusPost’s durable, eco-friendly fence posts are revolutionizing the way farmers fence their fields-saving time, money, and hassle.

BY: Zahra Sadiq
Tired of expensive traditional fence posts that fail to secure your property? Electrical fence posts offer a cost-effective, reliable solution for farmers looking to boost security without breaking the bank.

PlusPost offers electric fence posts made from 99% recycled plastic and enhanced with a UV stabilizer, providing an affordable and eco-friendly alternative to traditional metal posts. These durable posts come in three sizes: 40", 50", and 60".

They are also installed with an earth auger in half the time of wood or metal posts, saving you hundreds on equipment rentals and labor. Additionally, their plastic construction eliminates the need for insulators.

These fence posts are also quick and easy to install. So much so PlusPost offers a free download guide for its easy installation. All you need is a drill, a mallet, and the auger attachment. PlusPost was made by farmers for farmers, ensuring they have a practical, cost-effective solution that fits their needs.

These fence posts offer a reliable solution to keep your livestock secure with no need for insulator clips. Made to withstand pressure, PlusPosts bend when impacted, relieving tension, and preventing damage to the posts or wires. They are hassle-free, maintenance-free, and will not rot, making them the durable and cost-effective choice for electric fences.

Overall, if you are looking to get fence posts, look to PlusPost fence posts for their sustainable, cost-effective, and hassle-free solution for farmers, ensuring long-lasting security for livestock without the maintenance and expense of traditional posts.

Video: Why Your Food Future Could be Trapped in a Seed Morgue

In a world of PowerPoint overload, Rex Bernardo stands out. No bullet points. No charts. No jargon. Just stories and photographs. At this year’s National Association for Plant Breeding conference on the Big Island of Hawaii, he stood before a room of peers — all experts in the science of seeds — and did something radical: he showed them images. He told them stories. And he asked them to remember not what they saw, but how they felt.

Bernardo, recipient of the 2025 Lifetime Achievement Award, has spent his career searching for the genetic treasures tucked inside what plant breeders call exotic germplasm — ancient, often wild genetic lines that hold secrets to resilience, taste, and traits we've forgotten to value.

But Bernardo didn’t always think this way.

“I worked in private industry for nearly a decade,” he recalls. “I remember one breeder saying, ‘We’re making new hybrids, but they’re basically the same genetics.’ That stuck with me. Where is the new diversity going to come from?”

For Bernardo, part of the answer lies in the world’s gene banks — vast vaults of seed samples collected from every corner of the globe. Yet, he says, many of these vaults have quietly become “seed morgues.” “Something goes in, but it never comes out,” he explains. “We need to start treating these collections like living investments, not museums of dead potential.”

That potential — and the barriers to unlocking it — are deeply personal for Bernardo. He’s wrestled with international policies that prevent access to valuable lines (like North Korean corn) and with the slow, painstaking science of transferring useful traits from wild relatives into elite lines that farmers can actually grow. Sometimes it works. Sometimes it doesn’t. But he’s convinced that success starts not in the lab, but in the way we communicate.

“The fact sheet model isn’t cutting it anymore,” he says. “We hand out a paper about a new variety and think that’s enough. But stories? Plants you can see and touch? That’s what stays with people.”

Bernardo practices what he preaches. At the University of Minnesota, he helped launch a student-led breeding program that’s working to adapt leafy African vegetables for the Twin Cities’ African diaspora. The goal? Culturally relevant crops that mature in Minnesota’s shorter growing season — and can be regrown year after year.

“That’s real impact,” he says. “Helping people grow food that’s meaningful to them, not just what's commercially viable.”

He’s also brewed plant breeding into something more relatable — literally. Coffee and beer have become unexpected tools in his mission to make science accessible. His undergraduate course on coffee, for instance, connects the dots between genetics, geography, and culture. “Everyone drinks coffee,” he says. “It’s a conversation starter. It’s a gateway into plant science.”

Designed by Farmers, For Famers: The Better Way to Fence

Looking for a smarter, more affordable way to secure your pasture? Discover how PlusPost’s durable, eco-friendly fence posts are revolutionizing the way farmers fence their fields-saving time, money, and hassle.

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