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Chris Bennett

Writing from the level land of the Delta just outside of Clarksdale, Miss., Bennett has blogged for several years on agriculture, surrounded by cotton and plenty of cottonmouths.

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Fritz Haber found the means to both feed and kill the masses, unleashing a surreal chain of genius, suicide and Nazi atrocities, all toe-tagged to the wildest contradictions in history.
In the reshaping of rural America, one man’s opportunity can be another’s concrete curse.
In a seismic ruling, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court ruled that wildlife officers may not enter private land without probable cause.
Was Ron Fode’s real crime saving his crops? “The state tried to bury us, but the truth is hard to hide,” he says.
Brooke Rollins’ intent addresses a paramount question of U.S. national food security: Who decides what a crop is worth?
“Craziest story of my life,” says Stan Hoskins. “A neighbor has taken my land and … calls it adverse possession; I call it stealing.”
Cutting, crafting, and welding, Frank Smith turns a shop rebuild into a tractor corral.
Incredibly surviving the Civil War, world wars, depressions, epidemics, and every milestone for two centuries, the Taylor gathering may be the oldest reunion on the planet.
While his corn and soybeans drown, Cody Peterson faces potential prosecution if he drains his rows.
Everyone gets a seat at the data feast, except the American farmer.