A nice contrast to yesterday’s piece on tribes NOT doing the right thing.
In part of the Plains the Mutual spirit still functions. Unsurprising. This is Mennonite territory, Farmers Co-op territory, and Grange territory. High plains farmers are accustomed to working together.
High Plains Radio, a collective of small NPR stations in irrigated-circle country, is forming a new MBS to keep the stations going without federal subsidy. The director of the co-op says:
The 1930s Dust Bowl was exactly centered in HPPR’s coverage area. This is a region where large-scale agriculture underpins the economy, but a very promising wheat crop can be destroyed in minutes by a passing hailstorm. … It’s the direction we need to go anyway, just to serve more and to serve better. Losing CPB funding is all the more reason to do it.
Exactly the right way to handle a psychopath like Trump! Do what you need to do, strengthen your own resources, so you can be FREE from political psychopaths of “both” “parties”.
Here’s the map of the co-op:
This is the sales area of the Enid elevator service company I worked for in the 70s. We did regular business with all these co-ops except Brewster. Our salesman lived in Dodge and one of our foremen lived in Hill City.
The circles are also familiar. This is circular irrigator country, where land is divided in polar form instead of rectangular form.
Polistra's Mill 