Freedom to farm

Revolutionary bill offers flexibility – but with a price
Agriculture is so integrally connected between weather, markets, soil, machinery, seed, research, ideology, insects and disease, pesticides and fertilizers, that legislation, though significant, is a string in the web of an industry that feeds this nation.Pull or change the string, and it affects the whole. In this case, the string is the Freedom to Farm Act, revolutionary agricultural legislation that gives farmers greater decision-making powers to diversify the crops they raise. It also opens them to greater market vulnerability.
The development of the Freedom to Farm Act didn’t occur…