The Return of the Farmer Politician
Coover draws on his agricultural work to argue that trade and policy decisions affect consumers and rural communities.
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tl;dr
Farmers Hallie Shoffner, Blake Gendebien, and Don Coover are campaigning for Congress by linking the pressures on agriculture to broader economic and rural-health concerns. Their races illustrate a potential revival of farmer-politicians, though the article notes that each faces a difficult contest.
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