The Land Was Everything: Letters from an American Farmer

A firsthand perspective on the modern farmer’s struggle against drought, disease, insects, rodents, government bureaucracy, financial overload—and how those challenges promote qualities like independence, stoicism, and resolution.

Before storms that can destroy his crops in an instant, the farmer stands implacable. To fluctuations in temperature that can deprive his children of their future, the farmer pays no heed. Every day the elements remind him that his future is secure only through co...