Supporting Documents for Farm and Food File, Week of December 6, 2020

Posted on December 9, 2020

Background information for “Choose an Ag Secretary with Experience, Expertise, and Boldness”

Farm and Food File column for the week beginning Sunday, December 6, 2020

Organizational chart, USDA

USDA’s 2021 Budget Summary

USDA Budget Summaries, 2013-2020

Former USDA secretaries (The last “farmer” was Richard Lyng, Reagan’s second USDA chief; before that, John Block, Reagan’s first USDA chief)

Biography, Congresswoman Marcia Fudge

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Alan Guebert @AlanGuebert
January 10, 2021 at 8:17am
This. https://t.co/MxAISpfh0Q
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Alan Guebert @AlanGuebert
December 30, 2020 at 12:48pm
The US isn’t the only democratic nation where the ill-intentioned make nation-altering change too quickly for the benefit of a politically privileged few. Brexit is a fool’s errand & UK farmers will soon be the first to learn that lesson. https://t.co/Ri8bev4wmi
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Alan Guebert @AlanGuebert
December 29, 2020 at 6:56pm
Climate change, monopolistic practices & fair competition are neither right wing nor left wing. They’re mainstream and every farmer knows it. The problem is too few rely on science & law and too many rely on politics & gov’t subsidies. https://t.co/BHDE4KQ2Vc
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Alan Guebert @AlanGuebert
December 24, 2020 at 3:45am
Another killer post by @RiverRaccoon made especially so because incoming Sect’y of Ag will again be Iowan Tom Vilsack, Big AgBiz’s favorite do-little Dem. https://t.co/IrI0n4cppU
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Alan Guebert @AlanGuebert
December 15, 2020 at 9:44am
Since 2015, gov’t program payments to farmers & ranchers have totaled $118B excluding $20B asked for in new covid spending. Would anyone forego portion for better rural schools, hospitals, roads, Internet, lakes, rivers & soil? https://t.co/O61JrkH6ra
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Alan Guebert @AlanGuebert
December 7, 2020 at 9:41am
And he did nothing to slow or stop Big Agbiz concentration despite series of hearings around the US in his tenure that repeatedly made plain the need. Now, 10 yrs later, a handful of global giants run much of ag, food & rural US. https://t.co/YPcDxsTYSU
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