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Supporting Documents for Farm and Food File, Week of May 9, 2021

Background information for “Organic Farm Rules Need to be Reviewed Soon, Not Slowly Rewritten”
Farm and Food File column for the week beginning Sunday, May 9, 2021
Rules for National Organic Program, Federal Register, 2000
As organic fractures, food rules are being redefined, The Counter, March 15, 2018
USDA-backed takeover of organic milk, Cornucopia Institute, June 5, 2020
Covid will […]

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Supporting Documents for Farm and Food File, Week of May 2, 2021

Background information for “More Greenhouse Gas Comes from Rural Leaders than Rural America”
Farm and Food File column for the week beginning Sunday, May 2, 2021
U.S. drought monitor, climate.gov/maps, March 30, 2021
Behind the scenes of Biden’s climate goals, Yale Climate Connections, March 11, 2021
Details, conversations needed on Biden’s 30×30 plant, DTN, April 6, 2021
Biden’s 30×30 plan […]

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Supporting Documents for Farm and Food File, Week of April 25, 2021

Background information for “Managing Climate Risk is Good Business and Good for the Future”
Farm and Food File column for the week beginning Sunday, April 25, 2021
Agricultural Finance for Climate Resilience, Institute for Agriculture & Trade Policy, September 2020
Financing Resilient Agriculture, Environmental Defense Fund, September 2020
Carbon Markets and Agriculture, IATP, May 2020
Sources of greenhouse gases, EPA
Climate […]

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Supporting Documents for Farm and Food File, Week of April 11, 2021

Background information for “Global Meatpackers Filet U.S. Taxpayers Again and Again”
Farm and Food File for the week beginning Sunday, April 11, 2021
Trade’s winners and losers, Politico, November 13, 2019
Tyson, JBS, others pay millions to settle price fixing suits, The Fence Post, February 4, 2021
Feds, JBS owners reach pleas, DTN, October 15, 2020
USDA, Economic Research Service, […]

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Supporting Documents for Farm and Food File, Week of April 4, 2021

Background information for “Big Agbiz’s Big ‘Price Fixing’ Settlements Need Big Fix”
Farm and Food File column for the week beginning Sunday, April 4, 2021
ADM agrees to pay $45M to settle peanut case, Wall Street Journal, March 15, 2021
Pilgrim’s Pride to pay $115M to settle price-fixing suit, Agriculture.com, October 15, 2020
Tyson agrees to $221.5M settlement in […]

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Supporting Documents for Farm and Food File, Week of March 28, 2021

Background information for “AltEn: The Mess Gets Even Messier”
Farm and Food File for the week beginning Sunday, March 28, 2021
Civil complaint, State of Nebraska v AltEn, March 1, 2021
Nebraska sues Mead ethanol maker, Lincoln Journal Star, March 1, 2021
Lack of action: Senators blast state for inaction, Lincoln Journal Star, March 14, 2021
Nebraska sues troubled ethanol […]

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Supporting Documents for Farm and Food File, Week of March 21, 2021

Background information for “Figuring the Odds”
Farm and Food File for the week beginning Sunday, March 21, 2021
Grain and Oilseeds Outlook, USDA Agricultural Outlook Forum, February 19, 2021
Cotton Outlook, USDA Agricultural Outlook Forum, February 19, 2021
Soybean-Corn Ratios since 1974, farmdocDAILY, University of Illinois, March 10, 2021
Betting on corn in 2021, agricultural economics insights, March 15, 2021

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Supporting Documents for Farm and Food File, Week of March 14, 2021

Background information for “Who Do We Blame For Not Farming the Way We Now Know We Should?”
Farm and Food File for the week beginning Sunday, March 14, 2021
The extent of soil loss across the U.S. Corn Belt, National Academy of Sciences
One-third of farmland in U.S. Corn Belt has lost its topsoil, Yale Environment 360, February […]

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Supporting Documents for Farm and Food File, Week of March 7, 2021

Background information for “Local Growers and Rural Grocers Should be Allies”
Farm and Food File for the week beginning Sunday, March 7, 2021
University of Minnesota 2019-2020 rural grocery store report
Sustainable Farming Association

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Supporting Documents for Farm and Food File, Week of February 28, 2021

Background information for “Rural America Shouldn’t Be a Dump Site for Corporate America”
Farm and Food File for the week beginning Sunday, February 28, 2021
‘There’s a red flag here,” The Guardian, January 10, 2021
Kansas company buys idle Mead ethanol plant, Lincoln Journal Star, December 6, 2010:
‘A dump for seed corn companies,” Lincoln Journal Star, February 14, […]

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