New Minnesota Law Seeks To Help Aspiring Farmers Get Started
The law provides a 5 percent tax credit to older farmers who sell their land to beginning farmers, thus incentivizing the continued legacy of U.S. farms.
The Foodies Are Back To Fight For Counterproductive, Porky Ag Policies
Tom Colicchio is rounding up his foodie friends, who were pals with the Obamas but now marginalized by the GOP, to fight Congress over the 2018 Farm Bill,
Victor Davis Hanson On Comey, Foreign Policy, And Life On A California Farm
Victor Davis Hanson joins the Federalist Radio with Ben Domenech. They discuss Trump’s approach to North Korea, Mexico, and whether he’s changed American foreign policy.
Meet Your New Secretary Of Agriculture, America
Sonny Perdue was raised on a farm in the deep south, rose to power in Georgia politics, and is no stranger to powerful agribusinesses.
Wisconsin Says You Can’t Buy Kerrygold Butter Until A Bureaucrat Tastes It For You
It may well be the Platonic Ideal of Butter. But folks in Wisconsin will never know because some apparatchik on the sixth floor of the Department of Agriculture has not yet spoken.
Oregon Seeks To Regulate ‘Dangerous, Preventable’ Cow Farts
It all just goes to show how government regulation can be silent, but deadly.
USDA Threatens To Shut Down Farm For Conservative Article In Break Room
Obama-era rules empower meat inspectors to become speech inspectors, and that’s created a crazy situation at one farm in Michigan.
How A ‘Farm Bust’ Could Help Renew American Agriculture
Current farming methodologies aren’t just bad for land, community, and ecology—they’re increasingly bad for business. Something’s gotta give.
If Low-Skill Immigrants Don’t Compete With Working-Class Americans, Robots Will
Donald Trump wants us to believe that immigration is hurting American workers. The truth is more complicated—and less useful.
How The State Fair Gave Us The Best And Worst Day Ever
It was a perfect day at the fair, and it was all punctuated by the glow of our vegetary victory. Alas, all this glory was to end in sadness.
Why You Pay Twice As Much For Butter As You Should
The U.S. government taxes butter to allow American farmers to charge American consumers higher prices. This kind of protectionism is to blame for high food prices, cronyism, and economic waste, explains a new paper.
A Hippie Discovers Economics, And You’ll Never Guess What Happens Next!
What if we all grew crops and traded with each other? And what if we discovered the science of economics?
Chuck Grassley Stuffs Prisons Into A Porkfest
Iowa is America’s largest pork producer. So prisons will serve pork, even if prisoners don’t want it.
Supreme Court Dries Price Controls Like A Raisin In The Sun
Agriculture despots used to be able to seize farmers’ produce at will. With a new Supreme Court decision in favor of two raisin farmers, that may change.
Government Farming Subsidies Are A Pile Of Poo
It’s absurd to force taxpayers to send an Amish farmer more than half a million dollars to store manure.
Shock! Farm Bill Boondoggle Already Bigger than Politicians, Media Promised
The 2014 Farm Bill could impose more harm on US taxpayers and consumers than our political and media elite promised us.
A Win-Win For Hungry Africans And Environmentalists
Environmentalists resist science that can feed the hungry while reducing carbon emissions.
Why Conservatives Should Care About Urban Farming
Urban farming brings beauty to barren landscapes, provides for needy communities, and fosters an entrepreneurial spirit.
The Farm Bill Fiasco
The House and Senate have decided the best approach to work out their differences is selecting the worst options and adding them together into one terrible bill.
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