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Four Farmers Project: A False Start
As quickly as it began, the soybean harvest ground to a halt. The money is bad enough. What’s worse is that the clock keeps ticking.
10.09.08
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- sam hurst,
- four farmers project,
- agriculture,
- produce,
- environment
food politics
Four Farmers Project: The Soybean Harvest Begins
The soybeans are approaching maturity, but who among our four farmers will be first into the field?
10.03.08
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- sam hurst,
- four farmers project,
- agriculture,
- produce,
- environment
food politics
Four Farmers Project: Feeling the Pain
Credit is the backbone of American industrial farming, and even organic farmers are being trapped in debt.
09.25.08
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- sam hurst,
- four farmers project,
- agriculture,
- produce,
- environment
food politics
Four Farmers Project: Cutting Costs
A small number of farmers are betting on an upside-down business plan to pull in money.
09.18.08
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- sam hurst,
- four farmers project,
- agriculture,
- produce,
- environment
food politics
Four Farmers Project: Landing in Debt
One farmer is about to win a once-in-a-lifetime lottery. But even if he hits the jackpot, he’ll barely turn a profit.
09.12.08
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- sam hurst,
- four farmers project,
- agriculture,
- produce,
- environment
food politics
Four Farmers Project: No Room for Error
One farmer hopes to make the biggest harvest of his life, but everything has to go right.
09.04.08
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- sam hurst,
- four farmers project,
- agriculture,
- produce,
- environment
food politics
Four Farmers Project: Diminishing Returns
Unless these farmers get a killer frost in the next two weeks, they’ll just barely make it to harvest.
08.28.08
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- sam hurst,
- four farmers project,
- agriculture,
- produce,
- environment
food politics
Four Farmers Project: The Tragedy of the Commons
In the midst of the calm, two headlines illustrate the paradox of farming on the Great Plains.
08.21.08
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- sam hurst,
- four farmers project,
- agriculture,
- produce,
- environment
food politics
Four Farmers Project: Golden Opportunity
The plains are aflame with the gaudy spectacle of the sunflower bloom. But beneath it all, a war is going on.
08.15.08
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- sam hurst,
- four farmers project,
- agriculture,
- produce,
- environment
food politics
Four Farmers Project: A Land of High Anxiety
This is a land where you can work hard from sunup to sunset and still have no control over Mother Nature.
08.08.08
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- sam hurst,
- four farmers project,
- agriculture,
- produce,
- environment
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