1. Free Enterprise: Unsustainably Subsidized by Your Government
(Opinions/Politic)

...mic, environmental or ecological sense: their waste, formerly regarded as a precious source of fertility on the farm, became a pollutant—factory farms are now one of America’s biggest sources of pollu...

2. EU farmers hold milk price protest
(News/Economy)

...inisters was under way on Monday. Protest organisers said the number of demonstrators was as high as 5,000. The farmers used about 740 tractors to block major highways into Brussels, creating traffic ...

3. To All the Late Lamented Boys and Girls of Summer
(Opinions/Society)

...nd-nine-hundred-and twenty-eight." Later, as he bathed his sorrow in cheap wine and weed he’d found on the farm, Deboree learned that Houlihan’s words referred to a crazy bet he’d made. Houlihan ...

4. Labor Pains 2009
(Editor/Editorial)

... Senator Bernie Sanders, Senator Pat Leahy, and Congressman Peter Welch have come to their defense. Some of the farm workers have the required legal documents - many others do not.  Vermont dairy...

5. Bacon as WMD
(Opinions/Daily)

...nce they’d get hooked on it, we would trade with them. But what this did was it encouraged consolidation of the farming sector, because we would then subsidize those farmers who were most technologica...

6. McNamara's Other Debacle
(Opinions/op-ed)

...nkeys were free to help themselves to their crops. In many cases, the new government villages were far from the farmers’ own lands, and so they simply gave up tilling the land, with the result that hu...

7. HR 2749: A Stealth Agribusiness Empowering Act
(Opinions/Features)

...ed to help. They're vehicles to empower food giants, destroy small farmers, and harm the consuming public. The Farm-to-Consumer Legal Defense Fund (FTCLDF) Reacts FTCLDF is an NGO representing farme...

8. FDR'S New Deal v. Obamanomics in Their First 100 Days
(Opinions/op-ed)

...s or sharecroppers, and ended up depressing incomes and increasing unemployment at the worst possible time. The Farm Credit Act of 1933 Enacted on June 16, 1933 (the last of FDR's first 100 days), it ...

9. Government Is the Systemic Risk
(Opinions/op-ed)

...fghan farmers’ poppy crop. The results of this abominable action are predictable. They create resentment in the farmers toward the United States, while creating sympathy for anyone who offers assistan...

10. 10 Republican Lies for Tax Day
(Mamblog/Default Category)

... in land over generations and many family farms find themselves in situations where they've got to sell the farm in order the pay the taxes."But as the Washington Post explained, under Presid...