Farm & Food File
A syndicated column by Alan Guebert
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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 […]
Supporting Documents for Farm and Food File, Week of March 5, 2023
Posted on March 3, 2023
Background information for “Paying the price for being sick, old, or poor in rural America”
Farm and Food File for the week beginning Sunday, March 3, 2023
An insurance profile of rural America, Rural Policy Research Institute, October 2022
Why are legislators shorting Montana nursing homes? Flathead (MT) Beacon, February 22, 2023
Rural Hunger in America, The Food Research […]
Supporting Documents for Farm and Food File, Week of February 26, 2023
Posted on February 22, 2023
Background information for “Paltry fine proves what–not who–we truly value”
Farm and Food File for the week beginning Sunday, February 26, 2023
U.S. fines firm $1.5M for hiring kids to clean meatpackers, Washington Post, Feb. 17, 2023
PSSI, industrial cleaning company
Some states want to legalize working 14-year-olds, Business Insider, Feb. 13, 2023
New bill wrongfully pushes child labor to […]
Supporting Documents for Farm and Food File, Week of February 19, 2023
Posted on February 22, 2023
Background information for “Biggest foreign owner of U.S. ‘ag land’ isn’t who you think”
Farm and Food File for the week beginning Sunday, February 19, 2023
Sen. Joni Ernst, U.S. Senate Ag Committee hearing, at 1 hour, 26 min. mark, Feb. 9, 2023
Foreign Holdings U.S. Agricultural Land as of Dec. 31, 2021, AFIDA, U.S. Department of Agriculture
Chinese […]
Supporting Documents for Farm and Food File, Week of February 5, 2023
Posted on February 8, 2023
Background information for “U.S. may have the muscle in a trade fight, Mexico may have the law”
Farm and Food File column for the week beginning Sunday, February 5, 2023
No reason for alarm over Mexico’s GM corn ban, Institute for Agriculture & Trade Policy, Jan. 3, 2023
Understanding the biotech provisions in USMCA, IATP, March 2, 2022
Mexico […]
Supporting Documents for Farm and Food File, Weeks of January 22 and 29, 2023
Posted on February 8, 2023
Background information for “The Great Carbon Boondoggle, Parts I and II”
Farm and Food File columns for the week beginning Sunday, January 22 and 29, 2023
The Oakland Institute, Climate Crisis portal
The Great Carbon Boondoggle, Report, Oakland Institute, Nov. 2022
Big carbon capture project facing Midwest opposition; Bloomberg Law, November 2022
Bruce Rastetter, the quiet force behind the ag […]
Supporting Documents for Farm and Food File, January 15, 2023
Posted on January 13, 2023
Background information for “Any new Farm Bill must navigate the unruly 2023 House GOP–again”
Farm and Food File for the week beginning Sunday, January 15, 2023
About Mary Miller, U.S. House portal
How Illinois’ delegation voted for Speaker: AP, Jan. 6, 2023
Review of the Farm Bill, Views of SNAP, Center for Budget Priorities, June 2022
New Farm Bill needs […]
Supporting Documents for Farm and Food File, Week January 8, 2023
Posted on January 6, 2023
Background information for “Commodity Markets See Winter Thaw, Securities Markets Remain in Deep Ice”
Farm and Food File for the week beginning January 8, 2023
China demand, Argentine weather, farmdocDAILY, Dec. 30, 2022
Fewer market hogs, farmdocDAILY, Dec. 20, 2022
Wall Streets ends 2022 with biggest drop since 2008, Reuters, Dec. 30, 2022
China flying blind as Covid rages, Science, […]
Supporting Documents for Farm and Food File, Week of December 25, 2022
Posted on January 6, 2023
Background information for “Unfinished Business: Immigration Reform”
Farm and Food File column for the week beginning Sunday, December 25, 2022
Clock ticks down on immigration deal, Politico, July 25, 2022
Colorado’s Bennet introduces immigration bill, Boise State (ID) Public Radio, Dec. 15, 2022
Bennet bill would overhaul immigrant farmworker rules, Colorado Public Radio, Dec. 15, 2022
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Honest question: What does keeping the seat Dem do for Iowa agriculture, its farmers, and environment? Honest answer: Same thing the Dem Sec. of Ag from Iowa has done last two years-more ethanol, more dirty water, & more Big Ag. https://t.co/rwouHWCQiq
@daswenson @RiverRaccoon, can carbon be sequestered in corn-soy commodity system in drained/tiled fields? If not, doesn’t this one fact alone take most of Iowa and IL crop farmers out of the carbon game (yes, game) before it begins?
Cuts in Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid benefits would have far greater impact on rural America than cuts to farm program payments. https://t.co/lc6SN65Jbn