What happened to U.S. farmers during the last trade war?
This is Planet Money from NPR. Every time I've called up LaVon and Craig Griffune, they've been busy with grandparent chores. Well, we have two babies today.
A two-year-old and a one-year-old.
Oh my gosh. Are you guys Iowa's best grandparents?
I don't think so.
The tiredest ones, probably.
A little over a week ago, on May 5th, LaVon and Craig were babysitting two of their six granddaughters.
My garden's right by our chicken pen, and I just park the girls in their stroller, and they will watch chickens for an hour while I garden. It's pretty repetitious, but they watch them.
Levon and Craig are farmers. Craig is the fifth generation to live on this family farm. It's pretty big, 1,100 plus acres just north of Des Moines in Iowa. And in addition to raising chickens, they have pigs and sheep and turkeys and also something called limousine cattle.
It's a French breed of cattle.
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