It’s not If there will be existential threats to a farmer – it’s only when. In the 1970s, it was PBB. Tracy Robison Ruell remembers growing up on a Big Rapids, Michigan farm d during the 1970s, when, in a nightmare scenario, a toxic chemical fire retardant was mistakenly mixed with cattle feed that went farms across the state. Ruell’s parents lost their dairy farm, and split up – a formative memory for Ruell. She wonders if crisis – proof guaranteed income from wind turbines or solar panels could have helped her family weather the crisis, and saved the farm for future generations. The next farming crisis is only a matter of time.. The farmers I talk to get it…
