Farm and Food Facts

Changes To Our Land

The main focus of my blog is to provide a fair and balanced point of view on many of the topics facing food production and consumption today. From the treatment of animals to the balance between producing corn for food or fuel, my goal is to take on any subject in this arena where I can provide information or an opinion that potentially will be of value to individuals looking to gain a different or new perspective on these issues.

Throughout most of my 20 professional years in business and communications, I have worked within companies that have threads that tie those organizations back to production agriculture and food in general. So in my everyday work life I have been more than slightly sheltered from the majority of the U.S. population that has little interest or knowledge regarding how food ends up on their plate, or let alone how it is actually produced.

My thread to farming and a family farm can more accurately be described as a log chain. I am fortunate to have a family that remains in agriculture in North Central, Kansas, on a farm that has been in my family for decades and generations. I suppose over the years nearly every kind of farm animal and crop that would sustain itself has been produced and eaten on that farm. We all realize it is a way of life that is quickly slipping through my fathers worn and weathered hands.

A month hardly passes that I don’t hear about the death of another active or retired farmer back home. It is commonplace these days for there not to be any children around to work the land, that trend declined so dramatically in the last third of the 20th century. As I watch this continual decline of the family farm coupled with the complete lack of understanding in the general population regarding food production, I become alarmed at the complete imbalance of educated and reasoned voices discussing food production. It is that very issue that I plan to address.

Posted by Randy Krotz on December 18, 2006