Tag: Farm Bill
Rep. Cramer: How Critics of U.S. Farm Policy Have It Wrong – Farm Policy Facts
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
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
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