Following decades of government interventions which have only yielded poor outcomes, small farmers across America are faced with a stark future. Brian Reisinger's family have adapted their small-scale farming enterprises to reach a local market and to reduce existential threat. The combination of state ineptitude and corporate greed has presented the smaller landowner with some very tough choices. The many advantages conferred by an increased number of smaller producers and shorter supply chains is little understood by the public Reisinger hopes to reach.
Brian Reisinger is a fourth-generation farmer. He has written a book on this subject with an impassioned message for those who would benefit from knowing more about how their food is produced: Land Rich, Cash Poor: The Disappearing American Farmer. Brian hosts a website about his journalistic work and his family farm, and he has an active presence on X.