SONJA TROM EAYRS
Attorney • Author • Activist
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Dodge County, Incorporated: Big Ag and the Undoing of Rural America
By Sonja Trom Eayrs
with Katherine Don
University of Nebraska Press: 2024
"Sonja Trom Eayrs rings the alarm in Dodge County, Incorporated, speaking poignantly from her personal experience about how the American dream ... has been taken away from so many. It reminds us that the people have the power to fight back and reclaim our broken food system for farmers, rural communities, and all Americans."
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— Cory Booker, U.S. Senator
“For more than a generation, the relentless—and reckless—profiteering of Big Ag corporations has decimated the rural economy. . . Sonja Trom Eayrs brings this Kafkaesque upheaval to life in a narrative as personal as it is essential."
— Corban Addison, author of Wastelands: The True Story of Farm Country on Trial
“This book is an absolutely urgent warning sent from America’s heartland. Sonja Trom Eayrs has spent years fighting the corporate takeover of the rural community where she grew up, and the story she tells here is riveting."
— Christopher Leonard, New York Times best-selling author of The Meat Racket: The Secret Takeover of America’s Food Business
In a compelling firsthand account of one family’s efforts to stand against corporate takeover, Dodge County, Incorporated tells a story of corporate malfeasance. Starting with the late 1800s, when her Norwegian great-grandfather immigrated to Dodge County, Trom Eayrs tracks the changes to farming over the years that ultimately gave rise to the disembodied corporate control of today’s food system. Trom Eayrs argues that far from being an essential or inextricable part of American life, corporatism can and should be fought and curbed, not only for the sake of land, labor, and water but for democracy itself.
ABOUT SONJA
Attorney | Author | Activist
Sonja Trom Eayrs, author of Dodge County, Incorporated: Big Ag and the Undoing of Rural America, is a farmer’s daughter, rural advocate, and attorney. She is involved in several rural advocacy organizations, including the Socially Responsible Agriculture Project, Farm Action, Land Stewardship Project, and Dodge County Concerned Citizens. Trom Eayrs also serves as the business manager for the Trom family farm in Dodge County, Minnesota.
