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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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Against all odds, John Gregory stood up to a utility colossus intent on splitting his farm—and won.
Perfectly preserved and pickled for 100 years, who was the woman found in red velvet on a Mississippi Delta farm?
A family faces bankruptcy and almost $1 million in H-2A fines, with no proof of wrongdoing beyond the walls of a single agency.
“This is one of the saddest things I’ve seen in American agriculture in my lifetime,” says Bill Peter. “It ends with glass and metal covering millions of acres.”
Self-sufficiency in rural America? “No,” says Chad Cane. “More like targeting and potential jail time.”
“It’s sickening what the government can get away with,” say David and Debbie Ross. “We’ve done nothing wrong and we want a jury of our peers to hear the evidence. All of it.”
In the dead of night and blizzard conditions, Sawyer Wise was pulled into a surreal crime spree and fundamental violation of farm and family.
“The value of drones on the farm, as high as it is today,” says Russell Hedrick, “will soon go up to levels not even imagined yet.”
“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.”