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May 14, 2025

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Chris Judd is a farmer in Clarendon on land that has been in his family for generations.

Chris Judd, The Equity

Big changes ahead

Seventy years ago, when I was a kid, there were two main types of farmers. The conventional farmers didn’t use chemical fertilizers or sprays. They all plowed their fields in the fall. They used conventional “timed” cultivation to kill grass and weeds. Some still worked with horses and every farmer cut their grain with the binder, sometimes horse-drawn. And farmers helped each other in the fall with threshing and corn cutting because it took between six and ten men to

Food Freedom Day

Recently, some politicians have been reminding voters that the cost of living is too high and food is too expensive.

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