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Chris Bennett

Writing from the level land of the Delta just outside of Clarksdale, Miss., Bennett has blogged for several years on agriculture, surrounded by cotton and plenty of cottonmouths.

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Michael Ballard faces $120,000 in fines for allowing his farm manager to live on his agriculture operation.
Rooted crops, dead calves, strafe-bombed pastures, and a father-son team pushed to the edge by a wild pig plague.
When Wayne Cryts stole his own soybeans from a bankrupt elevator, he triggered the wrath of a government hellbent on his imprisonment.
Two Oklahoma con artists stole the savings of farmers across the Midwest in one of the wildest scams of agriculture and business history.
Among the wildest plans ever hatched by the federal government, hippos and other African big game were almost introduced to U.S. farms.
Rural Kansas landowner Scott Johnson says the state’s demand for surprise, no-warrant access to his property is a violation of the Bill of Rights.
Jim Conlan contends Swampbuster regulation is compelled conservation—all government stick and no carrot.
Welcome to Wyman Atwood’s unlikely tale of obsession, deceit, and an astounding 50,000-marble haul.
How much acreage can a president take? Not an acre beyond the law, says producer Chris Heaton.
Federal officials say a dry depression on Dan Ward’s Iowa land, 100 miles from a navigable river, is “waters of the United States.”