Tag: federal policy
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
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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