BUSINESS
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.
“Craziest story of my life,” says Stan Hoskins. “A neighbor has taken my land and … calls it adverse possession; I call it stealing.”
Everyone gets a seat at the data feast, except the American farmer.
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.”
Using crop diversity, conservation tillage and a contract-first mindset, the Ruddenklau family works to keep their operation moving forward.