ohio farmers deserve better than politics as usual

We often talk about the global food supply as if it is one giant, unfeeling machine. But that machine is made up of thousands of individual parts: families who have bet everything on a few hundred acres and a prayer. When we allow those families to be squeezed out by rising costs, predatory land acquisition, corporate consolidation, and a lack of institutional support, we are not just changing who owns the land. We are sacrificing the soul of this country.