Ken Meter Grinnell area talk
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(50MB MP3 54 min) details the amount of money extracted from the local economy by commodity ag production (corn,soybeans, livestock) and contrasts this with the amount of money that left the local economy to buy food for people to eat. Ken gives the details on who gets rich and who gets poor in todays commodity ag economy. In this talk, Ken analyzes economic data for the counties surrounding Grinnell, Iowa, showing that commodity agriculture lost more than $300 million in the last seven years, while people of the region paid over $850 million for food to eat. He also looks at data from the entire state of Iowa and the entire nation, showing that the same pattern of losses occur at the state and national level. He makes a very powerful argument for creating wealth in communities by changing the way we provision ourselves with food, energy, building materials, water, and other necessities of life. Ken, an agricultural economist based in Wisconsin, is president of Crossroads Resource Center (http://www.crcworks.org). CRC is a community-based nonprofit offering research and training tools for neighborhoods, communities and others working toward community self-determination.
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