ACRES USA

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“I didn’t have the money to buy a paper, so I started one,” said Charles Walters in 1995, remembering the origins of Acres U.S.A. for the journal’s 25th-anniversary issue. “I wanted the freedom that went with making my own decisions without the blessings of higher approved authority.”

A confirmed maverick in his early 40s, Walters had more than a passing acquaintance with the havoc unleashed by higher authorities and historical forces. The son of a poor Kansas farmer, his childhood was marked first by the Dust Bowl, then by the Great Depression. He came of age doing military service in the waning days of World War II and earned a master’s degree in economics on the G.I. Bill. As he made his way in several major urban centers, finally settling in Kansas City, Missouri, with his wife, Ann, Charles Walters never lost his connection to the world of farming. It was not lost on him when a flood of corporate money pushed the American farmer into an expensive new dependence on supercharged fertilizers and powerful new pesticides — about which little was known.

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