Land O’Lakes CEO: Farmers Are in Crisis–and America Isn’t Paying Attention

It's an overused phrase but there really are two Americas. Can you imagine your life without broadband or cell service? How would you function? That's reality for large swaths of rural America.

Even here in Michigan you can get an hours drive away from Detroit our largest city and experience it. These same people only got electricity in the thirties because of a federal program.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rural_Electrification_Act

It's long overdue that we offer rural broadband as part of an infrastructure bill.

Elections have consequences.

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2019/06/rostin-behnam-climat...

https://www.phi.org/news-events/1370/the-end-of-net-neutrali...

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/vvb3yb/house-republicans-...

https://thehill.com/policy/technology/370781-congress-pushes...

I thought that farmers were in crisis because of the trade war(s). I don't know how accurate it is, but it's been widely reported that, for instance, certain large buyers of soybeans have switched to other countries. I wonder why the article doesn't say anything about export markets.

Paul Beckwith recently discussed food security and the unprecedented low percentage of American farmland crop planted percentage. Get ready for a future of expensive food and famines.