When a Tennessee farming family decided to build a small rice mill and provide a local food source, they ran headlong into suburban uproar. Social media posts portrayed the farmers as “evil, cruel and environmentally destructive,” and Fox 13 Memphis piled on, covering the proposed rice mill as part of its “Contaminated Community” TV series. The gulf between food and consumer has never been greater.
Due to a lack of moisture, Chip Flory believes many farmers in central Brazil will finish soybeans but possibly forgo planting their second corn crop. Planting delays have occurred in southern Brazil as well but for the opposite reason — some areas have received 20” to 30” of rain in the past month to 40 days.
The agency says exports picked up steam this year in countries such as Canada, India and Japan and the new Regional Agricultural Promotion Program will keep the wheels of progress turning in 2024.
While Jose Luis Gonzalez Chacon, a poultry and palm oil farmer from Colombia, is vulnerable to violence, he refuses to be a victim. On his family farm, they're trying to advance a new idea: peace through agriculture.
