Category: Farm Policy
The Farmer’s Plight Part 4: America’s Plight
“Burn down your cities and leave our farms, and your cities will spring up again as if by magic; but destroy our farms and the grass will grow in the streets of every city in the country.” – Wi... Read More
The Farmer’s Plight Part 3: Bad Trade Deals and Worse Actors
A historic agriculture crisis requires three key ingredients: price drops, debt acceleration and misguided federal policy. When it comes to naming recent misguided policy, it doesn’t take farmers lo... Read More
The Farmer’s Plight Part 2: Rural America’s Nightmare–Again
The growing and unprecedented crisis with U.S. cotton is indicative of the plight of all sectors in American production agriculture. More and more, on the turn rows of western and southern Texas, they... Read More
The Farmers Plight Part 1 – The American Farmer and America Inextricably Interwoven
“There is no body of our people whose interests are more inextricably interwoven with the interests of all the people than is the case with the farmers.” – Theodore Roosevelt, 1912 What does Ame... Read More
Crop subsidies in the Farm Bill are part of what is making us fat – Star Telegram
Combines harvest wheat near Roggen, Colo. Farmers and the poor benefit from subsidies in the Farm Bill, but so do other groups. Ed Andrieski AP BY RAJ PATEL There’s something new to worry about in y... Read More
Is U.S. Farm Policy Feeding The Obesity Epidemic? – NPR
August 10, 2011 FRANK MORRIS Joe Raben harvests corn on land he farms with his father and uncle Oct. 4, 2008, near Carmi, Ill. Some farmers say technological improvements and farming mechanization, no... Read More- 2 of 2
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