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Against all odds, John Gregory stood up to a utility colossus intent on splitting his farm—and won.
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.”
When the daily demands of an operation become overwhelming, long-term strategy is often the first thing to go. But what if hard times are actually the best time to grow?
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.”
“If you think they don’t abuse small businesses, then my story says otherwise,” says J.P. Brooks. “They make sure we own nothing.”
Scales of Injustice? Jake Molieri faces ruin after officials clamped down on his snake aversion business.
When Sam Krautscheid busted two outlaws, he peeled back the page on a plague of crime.