A crisis building for years in the countryside finally erupts with a "siege" of Paris by rural protestors demanding more radical support for the nation's suffering farmers.
One reason Montana has the highest suicide rate in the country -- too many guns to begin with, but ranching is so precarious -- one bad year when you're dryland farming wheat and you're wiped out. Like France, we have a big issue with rural suicides.
We also have the only actual farmer in the Senate representing us. He doesn't talk about it much, but Jon Tester was instrumental in building the organic legumes sector up in those dry lands, in part as a way to save $$ by cutting inputs, and rebuild soil because legumes.
One reason Montana has the highest suicide rate in the country -- too many guns to begin with, but ranching is so precarious -- one bad year when you're dryland farming wheat and you're wiped out. Like France, we have a big issue with rural suicides.
We also have the only actual farmer in the Senate representing us. He doesn't talk about it much, but Jon Tester was instrumental in building the organic legumes sector up in those dry lands, in part as a way to save $$ by cutting inputs, and rebuild soil because legumes.