Bingo category – Mind Farm is the accounting of a year on a family farm in central Missouri. Tom, Sally, and their children raise corn, soybeans, and hogs on this farm, which is actually a patchwork of smaller farms. The year is mid-1980s, so there are the Reagan/Clinton farm policies to be dealt with, as well as issues such as how the land can be plowed, what to do about storage if there isn’t enough, and the ever temperamental weather situation. The fact is that […]
Peace like a river flows
Farm: A Year in the Life of an American Farmer by Richard Rhodes