Nucor gets the gold mine, farmers get the shaft

While two talking heads debated extreme weather and global warming on the radio, my attention drifted away out the window. The buildings and houses of Brandenburg had quickly given way to the barns and rolling fields of Meade County’s beautiful countryside. Agriculture has been one of this county’s longest lived, most enduring in-house industries, employing over 1,300 Meade County residents with a value of $45,793,000 on ag products sold in 2017 alone.