Tonight's Guest: Price Peterson

This is the first of 3 shows featuring successful farmers in Panama talking about their work and the philosophy behind it. Price Peterson is the man behind the specialty coffee from Hacienda La Esmeralda famous for commanding $350/pound.

Price Peterson had a doctorate in neurochemistry and taught at U of PA before taking over a family coffee farm in the northern Panama highlands in 1973. He and his wife moved [here] and learned the business of raising coffee and cattle before the region became popular and the now famous Geisha coffee bean got its current reputation. Hear how his perspective raising a popular specialty crop in Panama straddles liberal and mainstream US views about agriculture.