India farming protests resonate with US agriculture

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Images of thousands of farmers streaming into India’s capital on tractors and carrying banners to decry potentially devastating changes in agricultural policy can seem a world away to Americans. However, the protests in New Delhi raise issues that also resonate in the United States and have led to dramatic change in rural parts of the country. The dispute raises questions not only about agriculture in India but larger issues about the country’s rural are