That's Sam, about a decade ago. Our kids would come in looking like this pretty much daily. I'll admit, it annoyed me. The mud. The laundry. Andrea scrubbing boots on the porch. Turns out it might have been the best...
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I've spent a year showing you how a handful of corporations captured our food system. This week, I get to write about one of the best ideas I've seen for actually taking it back. Last Tuesday, a $45 billion deal put Hellmann's,...
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The best beef in the world might come from old cows. It's day eleven of helping an 8,000-acre Montana ranch transition to the next generation. I'm standing in a field staring at two cows that were supposed to go to...
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Forty percent of American farmland is owned by someone over sixty-five. When a ranch doesn't have a successor, it doesn't get passed down. It gets sold. To a developer. To an investment fund. To someone who might never run a cow...
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I just dropped Andrea off at the Billings airport. She's heading home. I'm staying in Montana to take a chance on something new. A year ago I wouldn't have had the confidence to make that call. A researcher named Dora Biro...
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