Eye On Illinois: Economic woes for state’s farmers would be everyone’s problem

It’s not a problem until it affects me.

That may not be a conscious philosophy, but having observed politicians, voters and taxpayers for a few decades, it seems a large number of our fellow humans operate under some version of the sentiment.

The rest of the column could focus on human and civil rights abuses at home and abroad. And while I haven’t been able to focus on much else all weekend, the concept of “yeah, but that news is about other people” also echoed when reading an interview Tom C. Doran of AgriNews conducted with Brian Duncan , the Illinois Farm Bureau president.

Although the two chatted at the state fair’s Ag Day, Doran published their conversation Sunday afternoon. Things got concerning immediately with the answer to the first potentially benign question regarding IFB’