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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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“If you think they don’t abuse small businesses, then my story says otherwise,” says J.P. Brooks. “They make sure we own nothing.”
“We’re on a one-way street,” says Kenneth Graves. “I don’t want to just go along and pretend.”
Scales of Injustice? Jake Molieri faces ruin after officials clamped down on his snake aversion business.
Ezra and Eli Lane discovered a hoard of nine corn whiskey jugs buried for roughly 150 years, with the prize worth several thousand dollars.
When Sam Krautscheid busted two outlaws, he peeled back the page on a plague of crime.
“On our land, my family’s attitude has always been, ‘Do the right thing and everything will be fine.’ Didn’t work with FWS.”
Warning against “blind ambition,” Ron Robbins placed his row crop acres on the scales, spurred by successive years of financial strain. Keep or cull.
Nik Patel steered a series of astonishing agriculture-related scams and racked up a whopping 52-year prison sentence.
Responding to crippling input costs, Alex Harrell slashes his cropland in half and predicts significant U.S. acres may be bare come spring.
Amid the highest copper prices in history, thieves now must tangle with a watchman that never sleeps.