Farmer is a genderless term: Part I
Ladies: we own/lease boatloads of Iowa farmland; USDA - you gotta redefine "family farm" because it is killing actual owner-operator farms.
I wrote this in 2013 for In These Times magazine - the idealized notion of farmer, heartland, that place that feeds the world. Farms increasingly are owned by corporations, small family farms like the one dad left in trust to his kids, owner operated are fewer and further between. The word farmer brings to mind a grumpy old man on a tractor. I can repor…
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