The Floods Kept Coming. He Needed to Grow a Crop That Would Thrive in Water — or to Quit.
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One Illinois man’s decadeslong fight to convert his fields into rice paddies demonstrates how it’s possible to bring diversity to the Corn Belt, but improbable so long as federal farm policy remains focused on soybeans and corn.
  • kirk@midwest.socialEnglish
    3·
    3 months ago

    Started reading this article before realizing it’s the farmer who makes my favorite brand of rice, Cahokia Rice. It’s really yummy

  • Jarix@lemmy.worldEnglish
    28·
    3 months ago

    Uh, taking 20+years to accomplish a task isn’t a strong argument for a thing

    • imrighthere@lemmy.caEnglish
      71·
      3 months ago

      Good job not reading the article, or reasoning out for yourself why something like this would take 25 years.

      • Jarix@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        3 months ago

        I read the article, I just find the headline too far misleading that i finds it to be very annoying. I think it honestly misrepresents the significance and the accomplishment in it.