Challenges to long-established dietary notions may be good news for dairy and red meat producers, not so good for grain, fruit and potato growers
by DON STONEMAN
On a Friday afternoon in late May, after days of rain, the sun is finally shining on Joe Lach’s potato farm, just north of the town of Simcoe. His planter is parked in the yard while workers scramble to replace a broken U-joint on a drive shaft.
Weather and machinery problems don’t get to Lach. They are a familiar part of farming. Mention the Atkins diet, though, and Lach bristles.