American Food Production - Past and Present

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🗓️ 25 September 2022

⏱️ 25 minutes

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After a road trip to the family farm in Iowa, it's time to talk about modern American agriculture, and compare it to the way things used to be. As a bonus, Isaac talks to his kids about the lessons they should be learning from their ancestors' examples.

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0:00.0	Welcome to another T-Rex talk. Today we're taking this show on the road, driving in the car.
0:08.0	I've never recorded a podcast in the car, so we'll see how this one turns out.
0:12.0	If you've ever driven across Iowa, you will have noticed corn.
0:18.0	Big, wide open country, completely open country, for the most part, little windbreaks of
0:24.8	trees around the original farmhouses and then just corn as far as the eye can see. So this
0:33.0	episode we're going to talk about farming. We're going to talk about modern agriculture because that's what we just saw in Iowa. But we're also going to talk about farming. We're going to talk about modern agriculture, because that's what we just saw in Iowa.
0:39.3	But we're also going to talk about how things have changed because we visited on this road trip the old family farm, which was established back in 1876.
0:49.3	And that farm house, that little farm property right there, is like a time capsule.
0:55.7	It's like a cross-section of American farm history.
0:59.1	And I'll explain why in a minute.
1:02.3	Now, this is kind of a strange topic for the T-Rex Arms podcast,
1:06.1	except that as we talk about sustainment, as we talk about building community,
1:10.2	as we talk about a whole bunch of things that we want to recover and get better at skill set-wise, food production is one of them.
1:19.1	And as we talk about issues that have arisen in our day and our age, culturally, politically, economically, et cetera, agriculture is kind of a big one because everybody needs food.
1:31.2	Right guys? Yeah. Yeah. Now on this road trip, I took my family and I also want to talk a little
1:38.4	bit about family history. I think it is very important that not only do we talk about these things amongst one
1:47.0	another, but we also talk about these things with our kids. And I wanted my children to be able to
1:52.3	see this family farm and to see where their ancestors worked and what their ancestors built and what their
1:59.6	ancestors did. So in this episode,
2:02.2	I'm going to intercut some of a conversation that I had with the kids and we'll talk a little bit
2:09.1	about that. But let's talk about the modern agriculture for a moment. Clara, what was your favorite
2:14.5	thing in the farm? Corn. Corn? Corn was your favorite thing in the farm? Corn.
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