Trump Is Shamelessly Bribing Farmers With Cash Handouts
The political goal of handouts is another example of how Trump thinks he can throw around billions of dollars, seized by the government through taxes, to get whatever he wants.
Other Politicians Should Follow Ron DeSantis’s Lead In Draining The Farm Bill Swamp
The farm bill represents an unholy alliance between lawmakers looking to give wealthy farmers more subsidies and lawmakers looking to expand food stamps.
How Big Business Uses Big Government To Ruin Small Fishermen Like Me
Ensnared in an international trade dispute between Vietnam and very large U.S. catfish farms are hundreds of small wild-caught catfish producers throughout the United States.
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,
The Most Important Topic Hillary And Trump Won’t Discuss Tonight
Both presidential candidates support Big Ag to the detriment of small family farmers.
You Shouldn’t Have To Pay For Peanuts If You Don’t Want To Eat Them
Americans will collectively spend an estimated $2 billion on peanuts this year before even breaking open a shell.
5 Ways To Celebrate National Agriculture Day
Today is National Agriculture Day. Here are ways to celebrate and educate yourself on what you eat.
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.
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.
Farm Bill Reform? Not So Fast
The House has a chance to make substantive reform a possibility. Will it go through with it? That’s another question.
The Farm Bill is back — and it’s still terrible
Not only ridiculously expensive, but ridiculously counterproductive.