Tag: agriculture
Farmer’s Daughter: Nostalgia is no reason to put legal limits on farms – AGDAILY.COM
By Amanda Zaluckyj, The Farmer’s Daughter USA Once I started law school, there were a few changes I urged my parents to make to our farming operation. They needed to have written lease agreements, w... Read More
Farm Babe: What you need to know about growth hormones in meat – AGDAILY.COM
By Michelle Miller, Farm Babe http://www.farmbabe.org/ Published: November 08, 2016 Thanksgiving is almost upon us and it’s time to bite into that big juicy slice of turkey. But have you ever notice... Read More
Fighting someone else’s ‘good idea’ for our land – Gerald Nobles
Photo by Wyatt Bechtel by Gerald Nobles My family and I closed a chapter in our lives when we sold the last piece of our ranch just outside of Midland, Texas. My grandchildren were the sixth generatio... Read More
Foreign Subsidy Schemes Sour Markets – Farm Policy Facts
Back in May, the Wall Street Journal printed a story that gave readers a good glimpse into the foreign shenanigans that U.S. farmers face every day in the global marketplace. The piece was specificall... Read More
Farm Policy (Finally) Gets a Fair Shake from a Major Media Outlet
Among his mainstream media brethren, Brandon Darby, the managing director and editor of Breitbart Texas, noticed that farmers and the importance of them are largely overlooked and dismissed. “You ha... Read More
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- 3 of 3
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