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Four Farmers Project: No Room for Error

One farmer hopes to make the biggest harvest of his life, but everything has to go right.
Sam Hurst
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.
Sam Hurst
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.
Sam Hurst
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.
Sam Hurst
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.
Sam Hurst
08.08.08
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sam hurst,
four farmers project,
agriculture,
produce,
environment
food politics

Four Farmers Project: Hail + Drift

Our farmers continue to sleep with one eye open to the nightmare rumble of late-night thunderstorms. Hail falls, pollen drifts, and a wandering bull heads west.
Sam Hurst
07.31.08
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sam hurst,
four farmers project,
agriculture,
produce,
environment
food politics

Four Farmers Project: Dark Horizons

Human civilization has thrived in regions where climate has been steady and benign. But farming on the Great Plains is full of surprises.
Sam Hurst
07.24.08
Keywords
sam hurst,
farms + fish,
four farmers project,
agriculture,
produce
magazine

To Bee or Not to Bee

The United States has more crops in need of pollination than it has honeybees to do the job. Now what?
Heather Smith
August 2008
Keywords
heather smith,
health + science,
environment,
agriculture,
bees
food politics

Politics of the Plate: Breathing a Little Easier

The EPA finally enacts regulations on five common fumigants that kill virtually every living thing in the soil.
Barry Estabrook
07.18.08
Keywords
barry estabrook,
politics of the plate,
food policy,
farming,
agriculture
food politics

Four Farmers Project: Black Gold

The Christensons grow food crops for fuel and are proud of it. The way they see it, their corn creates ethanol and still feeds people.
Sam Hurst
07.17.08
Keywords
sam hurst,
farms + fish,
four farmers project,
agriculture,
produce