BUSINESS
Everyone gets a seat at the data feast, except the American farmer.
Labeled as outlaws and facing millions in penalties, Wade and Teresa King face a state government hellbent on environmental justice.
Dust became dollars in one of the wildest agriculture crimes on record.
In a phenomenally audacious raid, Henry Wickham gathered, pilfered, and delivered 70,000 seeds of monopoly.
“It doesn’t take a data center or a solar farm to take farm ground out of production. All it takes is local government with a bad idea.”
“I’m just a farmer in their way,” says Georgia producer Jeff Melin. “Force me to sell, take my land, and fly in the billionaires and big companies.”
Using crop diversity, conservation tillage and a contract-first mindset, the Ruddenklau family works to keep their operation moving forward.
Robbing crop seed or smuggling pathogens, the most devastating raid of ag tech in U.S. history continues at a blistering pace.