Who, on radio (or web stream), speaks for the rural folks and farmers?

[Gold Metal Flake]

Big Eddie has his thing, Al has great guests and he sometimes allows them to finish a sentence, Randi is amazing and so is Thom. But who really speaks for the small farmer?

Everytime I see some political crap from someone in a rural area on a gearhead-related forum, I see straight Limbutt. I wonder, who is the counter? Jim Hightower have a show anymore? Who else? Some one I have not heard before. I desire a new viewpoint, and some faith that the folks close to the earth are not completely lost.

[anarchy1999]

1. Jim Hightower, too little, not often enough and never heard anywhere.

n/t

In Dallas you can catch about 3 minutes on KNON every couple of days or so. 89.3

Holy smokes!

"We're an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality. And while you're studying that reality-judiciously, as you will-we'll act again, creating other new realities, which you can study too, and that's how things will sort out. We're history's actors . . . and you, all of you, will be left to just study what we do."

A senior adviser to Bush, as quoted by RON SUSKIND.

Welcome to 1939, Germany. See you all later, maybe.

[TriMetFan]

2. I would have to say Big Eddie.

He talks their talk and understand them more.:)

[delete_bush]

3. I don't catch Big Eddie all the time,

but just today or maybe it was Friday he was talking about price supports for farmers. Also that his state, South Dakota, has outlawed corporate farms, which he agrees with. I didn't think this was possible but a Google turned up this...

"voters in South Dakota passed a constitutional amendment that not only prohibits corporations from owning farmland in South Dakota, but it also ends the practice of companies contracting with farmers to raise crops or livestock on their behalf. The measure, called Amendment E, is currently working its way through the courts."

[Gold Metal Flake]

4. EDIT: This seems to be old news.

http://www.aberdeennews.com/mld/aberdeennews/news/6572342.htm

"Posted on Wed, Aug. 20, 2003

Court affirms Amendment E is unconstitutional

BERNARD McGHEE

Associated Press

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. - The 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Tuesday upheld a lower court's ruling that South Dakota's Amendment E is unconstitutional because it interferes with interstate commerce.

The 1998 amendment was designed to protect the state's farmers from unfair competition by big corporations and the potential environmental problems that factory farms could cause in South Dakota. It generally would have excluded non-family farm corporations from owning farmland or farming in South Dakota.

Eight other Midwestern states have similar laws on the books, but none go as far as South Dakota's."


Damn activist judges.

[Gold Metal Flake]

5. Kick for any suggestions....

I'm hip to big Eddie, looking for more rural-centric views.