The Farmer's Exchange Online Democracy Has Failed to Protect America's Rural Communities
Published: Friday, December 18, 2020 The following is from Alan Guebert, a freelance agricultural journalist from Illinois. In early 1999, I wrote a column about lions and gazelles. More precisely, I wrote a column on how, in the 1990s, American livestock farmers had become "gazelles in the brutal world of global agriculture." What that meant was "Every morning the gazelle awakens knowing it must run faster than the fastest lion to live to see tomorrow" while "the lion awakens knowing it must run only as fast as the slowest gazelle..." As such, that era's low-profit hog, cattle and dairy sect...
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