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Subscribe to learn what really goes on on farms in America. I am a food and agriculture journalist who moved to southern Iowa to farm with my husband on his family’s 530-acres. The experience has opened my eyes wide to the economic and cultural realities farmers are faced with every day. I wrote the book Bet the Farm: The Dollars and Sense of Growing Food in America and am part of the Iowa Writers Collaborative.

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Food. Agriculture. Sustainability. The little guy. Was Prof + Journalist, now Farmer. My book "Bet the Farm" is a deeply personal look into the economics of agriculture.