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Food and Country

You said youthought that next year, 10% of the cow/calf people aroundyou would be out of...

[Ruth] You said you
thought that next year, 10% of the cow/calf people around
you would be out of business

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[Ruth] You said you thought that next year,
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10% of the cow/calf people around you would be out of business.
Duration
8 seconds
Views
27
Timestamp in Movie
01:13:37
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.
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[Will] Bluffton peaked in population in 1900. - Food and Country 00:06
[Will] Bluffton peaked in population in 1900.
When I was growing up in the '60s, Bluffton was still a town. - Food and Country 00:06
When I was growing up in the '60s, Bluffton was still a...
But under the industrial commodity scenario, - Food and Country 00:06
But under the industrial commodity scenario,
When it hit its bottom, which was probably 10 or 15 years ago, - Food and Country 00:10
When it hit its bottom, which was probably 10 or 15 years ag...
But when we hired 100 and something young, - Food and Country 00:18
But when we hired 100 and something young,
Now we've got 176 employees. - Food and Country 00:05
Now we've got 176 employees.
Our average employee makes way above the county average, - Food and Country 00:11
Our average employee makes way above the county average,
And what resulted is a really nice community. - Food and Country 00:06
And what resulted is a really nice community.
You know, it's still tiny, but it's gone from ghost town, - Food and Country 00:11
You know, it's still tiny, but it's gone from ghos...
[Ruth] So I hear you've been doing something with a solar power company now, too? - Food and Country 00:07
[Ruth] So I hear you've been doing something with a sol...
Some friends of mine owned a very large farm, near my farm, - Food and Country 00:11
Some friends of mine owned a very large farm, near my farm,
I was not very happy about that, - Food and Country 00:10
I was not very happy about that,
We populated that solar field with about 2,000 sheep for vegetative control. - Food and Country 00:09
We populated that solar field with about 2,000 sheep for veg...
And later on we added a few thousand chickens, a few hundred ducks. - Food and Country 00:07
And later on we added a few thousand chickens, a few hundred...
It has been a wonderful success. - Food and Country 00:06
It has been a wonderful success.
They actually pay us the same amount of money - Food and Country 00:14
They actually pay us the same amount of money
It's created new jobs and produces some really good lamb for our customers to eat. - Food and Country 00:08
It's created new jobs and produces some really good lam...
This was farmed-to-death row crop land. - Food and Country 00:07
This was farmed-to-death row crop land.
So that is Bermuda grass, - Food and Country 00:07
So that is Bermuda grass,