hell yeah, fair play to people for holding out! 🙌 it can’t be easy when farmers are getting compensated less and less for their labours, even though we don’t get food or clothes without farmers.

Eighty-six-year-old Mervin Raudabaugh, Jr., found a creative solution to end the pressure to sell two contiguous farms. He reportedly staved off developers by turning to “a farmland preservation program dedicating taxpayer dollars toward protecting agricultural resources.”

here’s hoping more people can do things like this to get data centre builders to back off! 🤞

Lost me at tax payer dollars. I heard fucker was rich now I learn he used government funds to do this. Also that means the government could revoke that and take it away. I would not doubt if they truly wanted a one million dollar bribe to a certain orange man and it will be theres for less then they just offered.