Source: https://www.farmpolicyfacts.org/farm-policy-history/ The Agriculture Committees of Congress are among the oldest; established in 1820 in the House and 1825 in the Senate. Today, the marquee le...Read More
Source: https://www.farmpolicyfacts.org/2016/11/rep-cramer-critics-u-s-farm-policy-wrong/ Editor’s Note: Farm Policy Facts is pleased to publish a guest editorial from Congressman Kevin Cramer of No...Read More
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 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
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
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