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When Ryan
Dennis's father
was crushed by heavy machinery on their New York dairy farm, both men accepted the accident as a risk of agricultural life. But it was harder to comprehend being crushed by low milk
prices, big banks, and the policies that destroyed America's family farms.
Even though Ryan grew up watching his father and grandfather struggle to survive, he always thought
he would follow in their footsteps and take over the family farm. But as he
milked cows and fed calves, the world outside the barn was changing. Between 2003 and 2020, 40,000 dairy
farms went
out of business in the
United States.
Barn Gotl1ic is an elegy for family farmers and
an intimate portrait of three generations laboring to be fathers and sons
while
their livelihood falls apart. Beautifully told with a farmer's restraint and a poet's
grace, it is a story of personal loss amid corporate corruption and of finding a way forward when everything you know disappears.
