Farm & Food File
A syndicated column by Alan Guebert
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Supporting Documents for Farm and Food File, Week of February 13, 2022
Posted on February 11, 2022
Background information for “Smarm, Snarl, and Snark Can’t Replace Facts, Honesty, and Ideas”
Farm and Food File column for the week beginning Sunday, February 13, 2022
Meet the People Getting Paid to Kill Our Planet, New York Times, Feb. 1, 2022
Sources of U.S. greenhouse gas emissions, EPA, 2021
Global greenhouse gas emissions date, EPA
The number of cars in […]
Supporting Documents for Farm and Food File, Week of February 6, 2022
Posted on February 2, 2022
Background information for “Making Pork Chops Flow Uphill”
Farm and Food File for the week beginning Sunday, February 6, 2022
U.S. Beef Supply Chain: Issues and Challenges, Texas A&M University, June 2021
Concentration in the U.S. Pork Industry, National Pork Producers Council, Jan. 2022
Evidence for the Effects of Mergers on Market Power and Efficiency
Supporting Documents for Farm and Food File, Week of January 30, 2022
Posted on January 26, 2022
Background information for “Getting MAD, Mutually Assured Digesters, Is Always a Bad Idea”
Farm and Food File column for the week beginning Sunday, January 30, 2022
Biden bill ignites debate over dairy digesters, Reuters, Jan. 11, 2022
The dairy digester dilemma, Center for Food Safety, Oct. 4, 2021
Livestock drinks up water in drought-stricken California, Comstock’s Magazine, Oct. 2016
Water […]
Supporting Documents for Farm and Food File, Week of January 23, 2022
Posted on January 21, 2022
Background information for “The New Ag Alchemy: Gold from Gas”
Farm and Food File for the week beginning Sunday, January 23, 2022
Carbon sequestration pipelines proposed in Iowa, Des Moines (IA) Register, Nov. 28, 2021
Public meeting on proposed carbon pipelines begin, Iowa Public Radio, Nov. 30, 2021
ADM proposed carbon pipeline, Successful Farming, Jan. 12, 2022
Summit Carbon Solutions
Navigator […]
Supporting Documents for Farm and Food File, Week of January 9, 2022
Posted on January 21, 2022
Background information for “Keep Moving, Nothing to See Here”
Farm and Food File for the week beginning Sunday, January 9, 2022
Report on the USDA Market Facilitation Program, Government Accountability Office, Nov. 2021
USDA Market Facilitation Program, GAO, Fast Facts, Dec. 20, 2021
Summary of GAO Report, Senate Ag Committee
The South hit the jackpot on MFP, The Counter, Dec. […]
Supporting Documents for Farm and Food File, Week of January 2, 2022
Posted on January 21, 2022
Background information for “You Can Only Postpone Reality for So Long”
Farm and Food File for the week beginning Sunday, January 2, 2022
A third of Americans deny climate change, The Economist, July 8, 2021
Climate deniers in the 117th Congress, Center for American Progress, March 30, 2021
Is … Farm Credit System ready for climate change? Institute for […]
Supporting Documents for Farm and Food File, Week of December 26, 2021
Posted on January 3, 2022
Background information for “Goodbye 2021’s High Profits; Hello 2022’s High Costs”
Farm and Food File for the week beginning Sunday, December 26, 2021
2022 Update Crop Budgets, farmdocDaily, Dec. 7, 2021
2022 Wheat Acreage Debate, agricultural economic insights, Nov. 29, 2021
Bob Dole, Obituary, New York Times, Dec. 5, 2021
Supporting Documents for Farm and Food File, Week of December 12, 2021
Posted on December 10, 2021
Background information for “Tyson Foods: Meatpacking Isn’t for Chickens”
Farm and Food File column for the week beginning Sunday, December 12, 2021
Tyson Foods, Securities and Exchange Commission filings
10-K, Tyson Foods, Inc., Securities and Exchange Commission, Oct. 2, 2021
Chicken price-fixing trial begins, Ontario Farmer, Oct. 29, 2021
Poultry executives face… rare criminal trial, Forbes, Oct. 25, 2021
‘The fix […]
Supporting Documents for Farm and Food File, Week of December 5, 2021
Posted on December 1, 2021
Background information for “Pod Save the American Farm”
Farm and Food File column for the week beginning Sunday, December 5, 2021
Corn Saves America podcast, Sarah Mock and eai.com
Media consumption trends, What’s New in Publishing, Sept. 23, 2021
Supporting Documents for Farm and Food File, Week of November 28, 2021
Posted on November 26, 2021
Background information for “The Smartest Person in the Room”
Farm and Food File for the week beginning November 28, 2021
Obituary, Neil E. Harl, Des Moines Register, Nov. 6, 2021
The Elbert Files: Neil E. Harl, 1933-2021, Business Record, Nov. 19, 2021
The Farm Debt Crisis of the 1980s, Neil E. Harl, Iowa State Press, 1990
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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