When Dad farmed, usually his biggest problem was the weather. He worried about an early freeze on snap beans, or the ground being too wet to harvest potatoes, or having too much snow in the winter to load the potato trucks going south. Issues such as immigration, border security, transportation, specialty crop funding, farm bill, trade barriers, tariffs, and low-cost imports were not discussed around the dinner table, at least not in upstate New York. Table talk If Dad was alive and still farming, the table talk would be much different today. Geographic location today no longer isolates areas of […]