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Food and Country

I don't domuch video conferencing, and I usually choose not to do the video, becauseI'm...

[Angela] I don't do
much video conferencing, and I usually choose not to do the video, because
I'm just kind of shy, I guess, I don't know

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[Angela] I don't do much video conferencing,
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and I usually choose not to do the video, because I'm just kind of shy, I guess, I don't know.
Duration
9 seconds
Views
32
Timestamp in Movie
00:16:23
Uploaded
Apr 02, 2025
Genres
documentary
Production
Foothill Productions,Real Lava,Sustainable Films,Range Media Partners,The deNovo Initiative,Tiger Tales Media,Bewilder Films,Ideal Partners

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Movie Summary

Trailblazing food writer Ruth Reichl examines the precarious state of America's food system. A Sundance Film Festival premiere.
So, tell me what COVID has been like for you. - Food and Country 00:05
So, tell me what COVID has been like for you.
And, in 2013, we put wheat into our rotation. - Food and Country 00:06
And, in 2013, we put wheat into our rotation.
And we've done Sudan for forage for cattle, - Food and Country 00:11
And we've done Sudan for forage for cattle,
Farming economics for the last eight years has been stressful. - Food and Country 00:06
Farming economics for the last eight years has been stressfu...
We're at cost of production or less. - Food and Country 00:06
We're at cost of production or less.
It's a half a million dollars, almost, - Food and Country 00:06
It's a half a million dollars, almost,
We've got bills up to here. I mean, we are highly leveraged. - Food and Country 00:06
We've got bills up to here. I mean, we are highly lever...
So we're transitioning acres into organic. - Food and Country 00:06
So we're transitioning acres into organic.
Yes, but the hard part is that 36 months of transition. - Food and Country 00:06
Yes, but the hard part is that 36 months of transition.
We go every year to the bank to renew our ag loan. - Food and Country 00:07
We go every year to the bank to renew our ag loan.
And it's only from beginning of the year to the end. - Food and Country 00:05
And it's only from beginning of the year to the end.
And it's like, there's no, there's no flow in between years, - Food and Country 00:08
And it's like, there's no, there's no flow in...
- Just kids. - [laughing] - Food and Country 00:10
- Just kids. - [laughing]
So, the majority of farmers in the United States go to the bank every winter, - Food and Country 00:16
So, the majority of farmers in the United States go to the b...
They farm all year and hope they can make enough at the end of the year - Food and Country 00:11
They farm all year and hope they can make enough at the end ...
And in our history, that's exactly what happened to us. - Food and Country 00:06
And in our history, that's exactly what happened to us.
It was Economics 101 in the '80s. - Food and Country 00:05
It was Economics 101 in the '80s.
I mean, everything, it was an auction, - Food and Country 00:11
I mean, everything, it was an auction,
Unfortunately right now feels eerily, eerily like that. - Food and Country 00:07
Unfortunately right now feels eerily, eerily like that.
I mean, go to any financial advisor and say, "All right, - Food and Country 00:16
I mean, go to any financial advisor and say, "All right...