Source: MODERN FARMER, 9/19/17


LARRY SCHWARM, 73, grew up on 320 acres in Greensburg, Kansas. Back when he was still a kid, his parents farmed wheat to pay the bills and raised enough produce and livestock to feed their three sons. “We had pigs, cattle, sheep, chickens, geese, ducks, goats, you name it,” remembers Schwarm. Things are different now. Fifteen years ago, the family began renting their land to a massive corn and grain outfit, a typical response to the Midwest’s increasingly industrialized agricultural economy. Since Schwarm’s 1950s childhood, the number of …

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