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The Midwest is farm country. Acres of corn and soybeans stretch to the horizon, tilled by grizzled farmers on their green, John Deere tractors — at least, that’s what we’ve been told to believe. But that stereotype doesn’t do the region’s $150 billion-dollar economic engine justice.
This is Greener Pastures. We’re taking you out into the fields to retell the story you thought you knew.
The region’s farms are facing some big challenges — eroding soils, extreme weather, economic hardship — and the grass certainly looks greener on the far side of this crisis. But how do we get there? And what could the farm — and the farmer — of tomorrow look like?
