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The family plantation lies in the centre of our countrywide identity, yet its future is at peril. Rick Hammond was raised on a plantation, as well as for 40 years he has increased cattle and crops on his wife's fifth-generation homestead in Nebraska, hoping of moving it to their four children. But as the handoff nears, their small family plantation - and their whole life-style - are under siege. Beyond the menace posed by growing corporate ownership of land and livestock, the Hammonds are faced with encroaching pipelines, groundwater depletion, climate change, the fickle requirements of the marketplace, and shifting trade policies. Following Hammonds from harvest to harvest, Ted Genoways explores the speedily changing world of small, traditional farming businesses. He creates a stunning and nuanced portrait of a radically new panorama and one family's fight to protect their legacy and the life they love.
