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Land Rich, Cash Poor

My Family's Hope and the Untold History of the Disappearing American Farmer

by Brian Reisinger
Brian Reisinger
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The hidden history of an economic and cultural catastrophe that is threatening our very food supply—the disappearance of the American farmer.
Taking on this story of heart and hardship, award-winning journalist Brian Reisinger weaves forgotten eras of American history with his own family's four-generation fight for survival in Midwestern farm country. Readers learn the truth about America's most detrimental and unexplained socioeconomic crisis: How the family farms that feed us went from cutting a middle-class path through the Great Depression to barely making ends meet in modern America. Along the way, they'll see what it truly takes to feed our country: accidents that can kill or maim; weather that blesses or threatens; resilience in the face of crushing economic crises, from inflation to COVID-19; and the tradition that presses down on each generation when you're not just fighting for your job, you're fighting for your heritage.
With newly analyzed data, sharp historical analysis, honest debate, and personal storytelling, Reisinger reveals the roots of a problem with stakes as high as they come. A vulnerable food supply, soaring prices for American families, environmental and ecological decay, farmer suicides, addictions, a deepening urban-rural divide, and more worries than ever about what's for dinner. These are all becoming the hallmarks of a food system that has long stood as a modern miracle. Land Rich, Cash Poor offers the honest truth about these issues, and a candid look at what we can do about them—before it's too late.

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    August 13, 2024

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      • ISBN: 9781645559825
      • File size: 182868 KB
      • Duration: 06:20:58

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • AudioFile Magazine
      Speaking with a Wisconsin accent, Brian Reisinger pours a lot of passion into this audiobook, so it's appropriate that listeners can hear the emotion in his voice. This audiobook is part memoir and part history of the ongoing challenges faced by American farmers. Reisinger weaves the two narrative threads skillfully. Sometimes the narration sounds rushed, and occasionally even mechanical. But in the most deeply personal passages, there is rawness and vulnerability, such as when he describes watching his father weeping after being forced to sell the family's dairy cows and when reflecting on the birth of his own daughter. This is a thoughtful and important work about a disappearing way of life. D.B. © AudioFile 2024, Portland, Maine

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