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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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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.
“On our land, my family’s attitude has always been, ‘Do the right thing and everything will be fine.’ Didn’t work with FWS.”
Warning against “blind ambition,” Ron Robbins placed his row crop acres on the scales, spurred by successive years of financial strain. Keep or cull.
Nik Patel steered a series of astonishing agriculture-related scams and racked up a whopping 52-year prison sentence.
Responding to crippling input costs, Alex Harrell slashes his cropland in half and predicts significant U.S. acres may be bare come spring.
Amid the highest copper prices in history, thieves now must tangle with a watchman that never sleeps.
State officials are preparing to take the land and legacy of a farmer for the crime of water “violations.”
Bitcoin will fundamentally change farming forever, contends a growing chorus within agriculture.