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Podcast: Food Chain Radio Podcast with Michael Olson
Episode: Lawyer for 240,000 Farmers
Description: Attorney Sarah Vogel, Author, The Farmers Lawyer
BOOM!  It was 1914 and the world was at war.  Europe was being torn to shreds by trench warfare, and wherever the trenches went, the land was certain to be in fallow.Â
It was hungry times for America’s friends and foes alike.  What America had at that time that the nations of Europe did not have was farmland and farmers.  American farmers were given the opportunity to grow food, and so they borrowed money, plowed up the ground, grew food for the world, and made money.  Â
BUST!  When Wo...