Skip to main content

John Woodrow Cox

Enterprise reporter at The Washington Post and author of Children Under Fire: An American Crisis; 2018 Pulitzer finalist for feature writing.

Jul 8, 2026

11:09
I said, no.
11:10
So I'm not going.
11:11
You know, I said, I'll go in a few weeks.
11:14
But I was not going to go that night.
11:16
And because I didn't want to be a part of that.
11:18
I've always there have been times where I had to be a part of that sort of what you're describing, like those people who were the first ones on the ground, because it is a necessary part.

45 MINS LATER

56:17
Well, I'm
speaker_1HOST
0:49
Here's John.
0:50
So really what this story is about is commitment.
0:56
The entire farming industry, farming in America is built on commitment.
1:00
It, it is, uh, the commitment of farmers to take on an unreasonable, extraordinary amount of uncertainty every moment of every day, uh, all of which could prove fatal to their businesses, and has.
1:14
We've lost hundreds of thousands of farms over the past decade.
1:18
And yet, they get up every day and they farm.
1:21
And that's because they've made a commitment to do it.

27 MINS LATER

speaker_1HOST
28:11
I already have 100.

We value your privacy

We use cookies to understand how you use our platform and to improve your experience. Click “Accept All” to consent, or “Decline non-essential” to opt out of non-essential cookies. Read our Privacy Policy.