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Farmers are valued, so why do they feel we don’t care?

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John Craven

Illustration: Lynn Hatzius

For farmers out in their fields in all seasons, worried about the future as dramatic levels of rainfall blamed on climate change damage their crops, inflation and uncertainty push up their costs and what they see as unfair imports threaten their livelihoods, here’s a spot of unexpectedly good news: the rest of us think you are doing a good job.

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