Rising Farmland Prices: A Cause for Worry?
Extreme Sales Stun But Don’t Set the Pace (From DTN Progressive Farmer) One $14,000-per-acre Iowa farmland sale won’t set standards for the market, but it has [...]
Publications
A Bit of Agricultural Humor (Satire) from The Onion
Nation Waist-Deep In Soybeans After $30 Trillion Farm Subsidy Bill Accidentally Passed EXCERPT: WASHINGTON—Days after the accidental passage of a bill allocating $30 [...]
Article: Risk and Profit for Young Farmers
Good Selling Strategies Reduce Risk, Protect Profit Potential For Young Farmers (From DTN Progressive Farmer) By Barb Baylor Anderson EXCERPT: Marcus Hess may not fit the [...]
Article: Deficit Hysteria Versus Food System Reform
Why deficit hysteria isn’t good for food-system reform (Grist) by Tom Philpott EXCERPT: Within a year, Congress and the White House will begin negotiating the next Farm [...]
HOUSE PASSES RESOLUTION PROMOTING FARM TO SCHOOL PROGRAMS
House Designates October Farm to School Month Supporting Farmers and Students (Washington, D.C.) Last night the U.S. House of Representatives passed a resolution introduced [...]
Kevin Wolfe’s Thanksgiving Farm Cartoon: Karate Turkey
Publication Exposes Myths About Future World Food Needs
Telling Porkies: The Big Fat Lie About Doubling Food Production – .pdf (The Soil Association) EXCERPT: The two figures on increasing global food production (50% by 2030 [...]
Agriculture News from Across the Nation
U.S. Farm Structure: Declining—But Persistent—Small Commercial Farms (Amber Waves) by Robert A. Hoppe EXCERPT: The continuing shift in production away from small [...]
Statement from Agriculture Secretary Vilsack on Congressional Action on Pigford Settlement
USDA Press Release No. 0613.10 Contact: USDA Office of Communications; (202) 720-4623 WASHINGTON, Nov. 19, 2010 – Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack issued the following [...]
Big Questions for Organic Food and Farming
What Is Organic? USDA Trying to Define It (Aol News) by Dave Their EXCERPT: If you’ve ever wondered exactly what that “USDA organic” seal actually means, [...]
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