“It’s an unwelcome shock for any farmer to hear our crops compared to poison and illegal drugs,” Deal told Successful Farming in June.
For the Beyers, who farm 3,500 acres on both sides of the Minnesota-South Dakota border, they compare it to the unpredictable nature of any presidential administration. For instance, Biden’s EPA urged farmers to alter landscapes to protect endangered species that, Jamie Beyer said, was “unworkable.”
“It could go really good or really bad,” she said. “You just don’t know.”
A truck loaded with sugar beets drives past one of Neil Rockstad's fields on Oct. 7. (Jerry Holt/The Minnesota Star Tribune)