Farm and Food File: The actual costs of the 'industrial mind'
Farm and Food File: The actual costs of the 'industrial mind' Alan Guebert In an essay in his new book, Hogs Are Up, Wes Jackson, founder of the Land Institute near Salina, Kansas, revisits a speech he gave in Coon Rapids, Iowa, in August 2009 to mark the 50th anniversary of Nikita Khrushchev’s famous visit to the Roswell Garst farm. During that cornfield summit, suggests Jackson, Garst and Khrushchev chatted about how their political systems — one that minimized government, the other with near-total government control — supported their nations’ agricultural aspirations. What no one ...