James Rebanks is a skilled writer whose book I enjoyed. He's got a new book for sale, already released in the UK and now in the US on August 3.
I haven't read the new book, but anticipate I will, likely from the library. Civil Eats has an excerpt from it, describing his visit to Wendell Berry in Kentucky and to Iowa.
While he calls Iowa farmers the "best farmers that ever lived", he doesn't like our production agriculture, mourning the transition we've made over the last 60 years or so.
I agree with him there have been big tradeoffs, but I'm not as negative as he is about current agriculture. I don't know how well his sheep farm could support his family without, I'm guessing, significant support from his writing.
But he's worth reading.
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