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How absentee landowners keep farmers from protecting water and soil

from NPR

How absentee landowners keep farmers from protecting water and soil NPR Farmers in the Midwest, on average, only own about half of the land that they use. The rest of it they rent, year by year, from a collection of landlords. Linda Prokopy, at Purdue University, has studied these landowners. "They're a very diverse group of people, much more diverse than farmers," she says. READ MORE

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