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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.

Latest Stories
When a serial outlaw was nabbed with 52 deer racks, the case became the biggest, and most bizarre, in state history.
Bert Cole’s story is stunning, even beside the most remarkable figures in agriculture history.
Alan Brecka woke a KT450 from 40 years of slumber and restored the classic from powertrain to paint.
John Moriarity insists the state’s regulatory pursuit of his property is about asphalt—not water.
A quartet of grandmother grifters cooked a con that rivals the most audacious scams on agriculture record.
Legendary Stan DeBoer, rebel with a cause, set the table for today’s American farmer.
Roy Pfaltzgraff’s maverick row crop operation is moving further to blade’s edge.
Gary Kempker contends he’s lost $300,000 and suffered massive erosion due to big business, conservation, and bureaucracy interests.
Under 16 tons of granite, a farmer sleeps with a mystery at one of the most grandiose burial monuments in rural America.
Lucia Sanchez’s ranch is crossed by a knee-high stream, and for decades her family could block trespass up and down the flow. No more.