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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.

Latest Stories
It’s not sharks, wolves, or bears that kill the most people—it’s wild pigs, and the numbers are trending up.
Government officials claim power over entrance, searches, and surveillance on private land with no restrictions.
Jeremy Bennett was prosecuted for denying the state entry to his private business.
Roger Reaves forged the most astounding farm life of modern times. Row crops to moonshine to marijuana to cocaine, he was the highest paid narco-pilot in history.
Sold: Integrity for the price of 12 cedars and a single oak in farm country.
William Christman, 19, saved his family’s farm and paid with his life.
Lust or greed, trespassers are drawn to farmland by deer sheds. Private property is no barrier to a shed thief.
Crackle, whine, beep, and buzz, Andy Thaxton metal detects farmland, hunting coins, keys, bullets, bells—and one more holy grail.
Tom Askjem disappears under farmland, descends to depths of 13’-plus, and returns to the surface with treasure—bottles and glassware from agriculture’s past.
The government seized control of John Yearwood’s ranchland in the name of a tiny bug. “There is no shame in Washington,” he says.