Synopsis
Examines the people, industry, economy, and landscape of the agricultural Midwest of the United States.
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- Running time
- 18 minutes
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- United States
- geography
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★★★ · Familiar Territory, Charmingly Ordinary · Christine Hennig II · 2017-02-15
Several midwestern farm families describe in their own words what it’s like to live on a family farm and make a living in agriculture. We also get to spend a little time at a grain elevator, a cereal making plant, and the Chicago Board of Trade, where farm commodities are bought and sold on a busy trading floor (Buy corn! Sell beans! No, buy beans! No! SELL! NO!…sorry). This part of the US is where I was born, raised, and still live, though I’m a city gal myself. But this is all very familiar territory to me, because even in urban Omaha, you never get far away from the influence of…
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