Building Local Power Highlight: People Love Local Food. Yet Local Farmers are Disappearing. What’s Going On?

Building Local Power
14/04/2022

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Episode Synopsis

Leah Douglas is a reporter at Reuters covering the politics of food, agriculture, and the environment. Douglas discusses how the poultry industry is structured by contract production, how dairy farms are the bedrock for many rural communities, and Earl Butz's conviction for farmers to plant "fence row to fence row" to enable economic food production.

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