"This is basically the heart of Iowa. It’s all farms here, but you’re not going to see any farmers. That’s the amazing thing, they’ve just disappeared."
Dwight Rutter, Grain Farmer
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Why should the displacement and disappearance of
family farms matter to people outside of the isolated
rural countryside of America's heartland? AS WE SOW searches for answers from people on
the front lines of what some call "the last farm crisis." ______________________________________________