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![]() Oct. 28, 2024 Agri Marketing magazine reports:
Jim Patrico lived those changes and recorded them with his camera and his note book for the Missouri Ruralist, Farm Journal and Progressive Farmer. Chapter by chapter, Dispatches focuses on real farmers and ranchers, people Patrico interviewed and photographed while drinking coffee at their kitchen tables and while trying to take notes in their bouncing tractor cabs. "My goal with the book is to explain to urban and rural readers--and to myself--the incredible changes we've seen in rural America over the last four decades," Patrico says. "I met some remarkable people. I want to share their stories because they are key to understanding the nation as a whole." Among the people you'll meet in Dispatches: *A California dairy farmer who fosters babies born in prison because she can't stand the thought of little ones suffering for their mothers' bad decisions. *Pickup truck owners who give pet names to their vehicles and scoff at their neighbors' rusty old heaps. *A Massachusetts farmer whose fall from a barn roof caused his family to add farm-brewed beer to their dairy and crop businesses. *A Kansas ranch couple whose love blossomed when he braved a 1930s blizzard on horseback to visit her for Valentine's Day. *An Appalachian farmer whose neighbor deals drugs and flies a Confederate flag in his front yard. "Some of these stories are instructive. Some are emotional. Some are just plain fun," Patrico says. The paperback version of Dispatches From Farm Country is on preorder from Amazon, Apple Books, Barnes and Noble and other booksellers. It goes on sale December 3. The eBook version is already available from the same vendors. Tweet |
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