Farm & Food File
A syndicated column by Alan Guebert
News Mentions
Supporting Documents for Farm and Food File, Week of May 21, 2023
Posted on May 19, 2023
Background information for “USDA 2023 Forecasts: Colossal Crops, Measly Prices, and Little Backslapping”
Farm and Food File for the week beginning Sunday, May 21, 2023
World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimate (WASDE), USDA, May 12, 2023
USDA forecasts record corn, soybean crops, DTN, May 12, 2023
Record corn, soybean production, wheat abandonment record, farmpolicy.news.ill.edu, May 15, 2023
Corn, soybean production […]
Supporting Documents for Farm and Food File, Week of May 14, 2023
Posted on May 12, 2023
Background information for “Burning Down the Barn: Our Unstable Livestock and Poultry CAFO Culture”
Farm and Food File for the week beginning Sunday, Mary 14, 2023
Correction: The original Farm and Food File wording, “According to the Animal Welfare Institute (AWI), 6 million chickens, 151,800 pigs, 194,400 turkeys and 192,400 cattle died in fires on U.S. farms between […]
Supporting Documents for Farm and Food File, Week of April 30, 2023
Posted on April 26, 2023
Background information for “The Short, Unhappy History of Carbon Sequestration”
Farm and Food File for the week beginning Sunday, April 30, 2023
More than 90% of carbon offsets by biggest certifier are worthless, The Guardian, Jan. 18, 2023
Are carbon offsets a scam, Yale Climate Connections, May 20, 2019
An (Even More) Inconvenient Truth, ProPublica, May 22, 2019
Ag Carbon […]
Supporting Documents for Farm and Food File, Week of April 23, 2023
Posted on April 26, 2023
Background information for “Coming Up: Another Round of Shameless, Senseless SNAP Fights”
Farm and Food File for the week beginning Sunday, April 23, 2023
McCarthy prepares opening debt limit plans, many pitfalls, Politico, April 14, 2023
McCarthy’s pitch to cut food aid draws skepticism, Politico, April 16, 2023
Quantifying the benefits of SNAP on US economy, USDA, July, 2019
Fiscal […]
Supporting Documents for Farm and Food File, Week of April 16, 2023
Posted on April 13, 2023
Background information for “We Can’t Buy Our Way Out of Climate Change”
Farm and Food File for the week beginning Sunday, April 16, 2023
Assembling California, The New Yorker, Aug. 30, 1992
California Central Valley, the basics via Wikipedia
Tulare Lake: Nature would like last word, New York Times, April 2, 2023
Wet winter won’t stave off Colorado River cuts, […]
Supporting Documents for Farm and Food File, Week of April 9, 2023
Posted on April 10, 2023
Background information for “Woe is WOTUS: When Lawmakers Make Water Policy Through Lawsuits”
Farm and Food File for the week beginning Sunday, April 9, 2023
Ag groups ask for WOTUS pause nationally, DTN/Progressive Farmer, March 30, 2023
Judge halts WOTUS in Texas, Idaho; Bloomberg Law, March 20, 2023
About the Waters of the U.S.; U.S. EPA WOTUS portal
Senate passes […]
Supporting Documents for Farm and Food File, Week of April 2, 2023
Posted on April 10, 2023
Background information for “When Stupid Bankers Make Stupid Choices, Stupid Things Happen”
Farm and Food File for the week beginning Sunday, April 2, 2023
What the failure of SVB really show; ProPublica, March 17, 2023
Bank failures in brief, 2001-2023, FDIC
More than 85% of SVB’s deposits not insured, Time, March 10, 2023
U.S. says failed bank’s assets available, Washington […]
Supporting Documents for Farm and Food File, Week of March 26, 2023
Posted on April 10, 2023
Background information for “Ag’s New Normal Includes Trade Deficits, Not Surpluses”
Farm and Food File column for the week beginning Sunday, March 26, 2023
USDA Economic Research Service trade portal
Record U.S. ag exports to China in FY 2022, Foreign Ag Service, USDA
Outlook U.S. Ag Trade, USDA, Feb. 23, 2023
U.S. ag flirting with first ag deficit in 60 […]
Supporting Documents for Farm and Food File, Week of March 19, 2023
Posted on March 17, 2023
Background information for “‘Right to repair’ fight between farmers and machinery giants just getting started”
Farm and Food File for the week beginning Sunday, March 19, 2023
AFBF signs MOU with Deere on ‘right to repair,’ AFBF, Jan. 8, 2023
AFBF/ Deere Memo of Understanding, Jan. 8, 2023
A new MOU on right to repair, DTN, March 9, 2023
Not […]
Supporting Documents for Farm and Food File, Week of March 12, 2023
Posted on March 17, 2023
Background information for “It will take guts to fix our abusive, cheap food, illegal labor system”
Farm and Food File for the week beginning Sunday, March 12, 2023
A cleaning company illegally hired 13-year-old, family pays price; Washington Post, March 3, 2023
Immigrant farmworkers and America’s food production, fwd.us, Sept. 14, 2022
JBS to pay $280 billion fine over […]