Farm & Food File
A syndicated column by Alan Guebert
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Supporting Documents for the week of Sunday, May 8, 2022
Posted on May 7, 2022
Background information for “Lost in the Pandering, Posturing Weeds”
Farm and Food File column for the week beginning Sunday, May 8, 2022
Biden’s Plan to bump up farm subsidies, Politico’s Weekly Agriculture, May 2, 2022
Biden raises eyebrows with $500M request for U.S. ag, Politico Pro, May 2, 2022 (Pay wall)
Biden will allow higher summertime sales of ethanol/gas, […]
Supporting Documents for Farm and Food File, April 24, 2022
Posted on May 6, 2022
Background information for “First steps in ag climate fight are honesty and courage, not offsets and credits”
Farm and Food File for the week of Sunday, April 24, 2022
National Farmers Union, Canada
Public comment, Canada’s Regulations for Offset Protocols, National Farmers Union (Canada), May 4, 2021
Agricultural Greenhouse Gas Emissions in Canada: A New, Comprehensive Assessment
Darrin Qualman
Director of […]
Supporting Documents for Farm and Food File, Week of April 10, 2022
Posted on April 8, 2022
Background information for “Twenty-five hundred gallons of water per bushel of irrigated corn is ‘too much’”
Farm and Food File column for the week beginning Sunday, April 10, 2022
Drought is expected to persist, spread, New York Times, March 17, 2022
Current map, U.S. Drought Monitor, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, March 29, 2022
California wants to pay farmers not […]
Supporting Documents for Farm and Food File, Week of April 3, 2022
Posted on March 31, 2022
Background information for “If Futures Markets Don’t Work, Your Markets Won’t Work”
Farm and Food File for the week beginning Sunday, April 3, 2022
Wheat futures prices and the war on regulation, Institute of Agriculture and Trade Policy, March 16, 2022
Ag business pushes for CRP land release, DTN, March 25, 2022
Senate confirms four CFTC nominees, Pensions & […]
Supporting Documents for Farm and Food File, Week of March 27, 2022
Posted on March 23, 2022
Background information for “Big Food Makes Big Ag Look Like a Piker”
Farm and Food File for the week beginning Sunday, March 27, 2022
Reforming America’s Food Retail Markets, Yale University, April 2022
Supporting Documents for Farm and Food File, Week of March 20, 2022
Posted on March 18, 2022
Background information for “Coming War for U.S. Crop Acres Renews Food-vs.-Fuel Debate”
Farm and Food File for the week beginning Sunday, March 20, 2022
Annual acreage reports, National Agricultural Statistical Service
USDA Wheat Sector at a Glance, Economic Research Service
Congress champions biofuels and gasoline prices skyrocket, Growth Energy, March 10, 2022
Proposed ethanol volume standards, EPA
Food prices rise fastest […]
Supporting Documents for Farm and Food File, Week of March 13, 2022
Posted on March 11, 2022
Background information for “Broken systems raise costs far faster than resilient ones”
Farm and Food File column for the week beginning Sunday, March 13, 2022
Lawrence Summers shares the blame for inflation, New York Times, Feb. 28, 2022
Keynesian Economics, Investopedia, April 30, 2020
The Laffer Curve, Investopedia, May 19, 2021
Supporting Documents for Farm and Food File, Week of March 6, 2022
Posted on March 4, 2022
Background information for “Global Food Chains Face More Uncertainty, More Instability”
Farm and Food File column for the week beginning Sunday, March 6, 2022
How Russian invasion of “breadbasket” could hit supply chains, CNBC, Feb. 23, 2022
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine like to ratchet up America’s food prices, Washington Post, Feb. 26, 2022
Russian invasion of Ukraine could send […]
Supporting Documents for Farm and Food File, Week of February 27, 2022
Posted on February 24, 2022
Background information for “Land Values Face Trouble in Coming Decade”
Farm and Food File for the week beginning Sunday, February 27, 2022
Rise in real estate values continues, Kansas City Federal Reserve, Feb. 10, 2022
Ag Letter, Chicago Federal Reserve, Feb. 2022
Cap rates and farmland values soar, agricultural economic insights, Feb. 21, 2022
USDA Agricultural Projections to 2031, USDA, […]
Supporting Documents for Farm and Food File, Week of February 20, 2022
Posted on February 18, 2022
Background information for “Big Ethanol sees electric cars as a market maker, not a market taker”
Farm and Food File for the week beginning Sunday, February 20, 2022
“Ethanol has been a boon to Iowa’s economy,” Des Moines (IA) Register, Feb. 13, 2022
Iowa is Addicted to Cornography, Christoper Jones, blog post, Feb. 11, 2022
A transformative climate action […]
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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