Christina Woerner McInnis on Alabama Agriculture, Family, and Public Service

She is a fifth-generation Alabama farmer, the founder of a soil testing company now on shelves in every Lowe’s in the country, and she is running to become the first woman ever elected as Alabama’s Commissioner of Agriculture and Industries. Christina McInnis joins me on this episode of Living It Up with Lenise for an honest, wide-ranging conversation about what’s really happening in Alabama agriculture — from an outdated farm bill and SNAP spending priorities to Chinese ownership of American farmland.

Christina shares her journey from growing up in Elberta to building AgriTech Corp and SoilKit, her vision for pairing Alabama’s 29 million annual tourists with our $77 billion agriculture industry, and why she believes the questions we should be asking are simple: Is this good for the Alabama farmer? And is this good for our children?

She also opens up about the personal cost of running for office as a woman — including a threatening predator who targeted her family — and the generational strength that keeps her going.