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Jim Sweeney and his family have owned their 81-acre dairy farm in Visalia, California, for 24 years. It used to be surrounded by other dairy farms. Today, it’s walnut trees as far as the eye can see.
There’s been a lot of talk recently about the right balance between civil liberties and national security.
To wit: the revelation that the Justice Department had seized telephone records of journalists who had reported leaked information and the ongoing saga of Edward Snowden, the NSA analyst who revealed that the government collects wholesale “metadata” of nearly every domestic phone call.
Sometimes the most interesting and worthwhile films aren’t the ones on the marquee at your local cineplex.
That’s especially the case if you’re a farmer looking for a film you can relate to or are someone who cares about farming as a way of life.
For generations, American dairy farmers have lived with a milk pricing system that is detached from reality.
In the simplest terms, the price they receive for their milk bears almost no relation to the cost of production.
This results in extended periods when farmers actually lose money every time they send milk to the processing plant.
