'If a guy has 5,000 cows and a great credit line at the bank, that means the community he lives in is short about 50 farmers,' a Wisconsin farmer told Newsweek.
candidate Mandela Barnes hosted a rally and two meet-and-greets in rural Wisconsin last Saturday where the issue of big agriculture's dominance over family farms in the state emerged as a top concern., chair of the Senate subcommittee on antitrust, Barnes, the state's lieutenant governor, rallied the people of Glenwood City, Wisconsin, a small town with some 1,300 residents about 60 miles east of Minneapolis, around the issue of corporate consolidation.
"Working people are experiencing some of the most difficult challenges they've ever had in their entire lives," Barnes told a group of about 150 supporters."Our family farmers are being squeezed out by large corporate monopolies that make it harder for them to compete."Newsweek that he's spent 25 years working as a beef cattle farmer while also engaging with his community as editor-in-chief of the area's newspaper, Hay River Review.
Over the years, he has seen the number of family farms dwindle. Hare said that in the past a family could send their kids to college on the earnings from a farm with a herd of just 40 cows. He said that today,"you're lucky" to get by with 150 cows. Since the late 1980s, America has seen its share of midsize farms decline. Jim Hare, who's worked for 25 years as a beef cattle farmer, said he believes Democratic U.S. Senate candidate for Wisconsin Mandela Barnes would represent the interests of family farmers. Here, Hare appears at a Barnes rally in Glenwood City, Wisconsin on September 17, 2022.."If a guy has 5,000 cows and a great credit line at the bank, that means the community he lives in is short about 50 farmers.
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