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Chris Bennett

Writing from the level land of the Delta just outside of Clarksdale, Miss., Bennett has blogged for several years on agriculture, surrounded by cotton and plenty of cottonmouths.

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Fritz Haber found the means to both feed and kill the masses, unleashing a surreal chain of genius, suicide and Nazi atrocities, all toe-tagged to the wildest contradictions in history.
Brooke Rollins’ intent addresses a paramount question of U.S. national food security: Who decides what a crop is worth?
While his corn and soybeans drown, Cody Peterson faces potential prosecution if he drains his rows.
Everyone gets a seat at the data feast, except the American farmer.
Labeled as outlaws and facing millions in penalties, Wade and Teresa King face a state government hellbent on environmental justice.
Dust became dollars in one of the wildest agriculture crimes on record.
In a phenomenally audacious raid, Henry Wickham gathered, pilfered, and delivered 70,000 seeds of monopoly.
Robbing crop seed or smuggling pathogens, the most devastating raid of ag tech in U.S. history continues at a blistering pace.
“It’s sickening what the government can get away with,” say David and Debbie Ross. “We’ve done nothing wrong and we want a jury of our peers to hear the evidence. All of it.”
When Sam Krautscheid busted two outlaws, he peeled back the page on a plague of crime.