This episode featured Fred Carter a local resident of Penderbrook, IL. He came on the show to let people know that the gas and internet companies would not provide infrastructure to his town.

As farming has become a big business, it has become one of the least diverse businesses around. Whites operate more than 72,000 Illinois farms, Hispanics 488 and Blacks 59. As senior government demographer Calvin Beale noted: "It has to be among the whitest of occupations."

It wasn't always. In 1920, Illinois had 892 black farmers, and African-Americans owned 14 percent of the nation's farmland. Now they hold less than 1 percent.