COALINGA, Calif.—It's taken the better part of my life, but I've come to acknowledge the soil in my veins. Despite living in a half dozen major cities over the years, I'm a country boy—born and raised in the farmland of Central California.
I don't speak for farmers and ranchers. I just listen carefully when they speak to me, as a group of them did recently in a gathering at a cattle ranch in this rural town.
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