Rural-Urban Meet in the Middle:Economists leave academia behind to farm full time

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Fifteen years ago, while in graduate school, Brent Gloy dreamed of returning to Grant, Neb. Following stints as a respected ag economist at Cornell and Purdue Univeristies, he's back on the family corn and wheat farm."It got to the point where it was now or never—that we can't say next year anymore," he says.Returning to the farm was a real opportunity and hard to pass up, he adds. "A lot of people never get that."