“It all could not have happened had we not been working together.” – Ben Burkett

Anthony Pahnke (FFD vice president) sits down with Denise O’Brien and Ben Burkett to discuss their experiences in farm activism and protests nationally and internationally over the decades. They reflect on their life-long experiences being part of these movements, fighting corporate agriculture, offering perspective on current times as well.

Ben Burkett is a vegetable and soy farmer, active in the Indian Springer farm cooperative, and an active farmer during the 1980s farm crisis. He recalls protests during the Pigford v. Glickman Trials, at the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, in Brussels with European farmers, among many others. Ben is the former state coordinator of Mississippi Association of Co-ops, a member of the Federa ...