Wall Street Sodbusters [Reposted with acknowledgement and thanks from Otherwords.org Please see original post page for copyright information.] Big-money speculators are buying up farms, charging tenants to farm it, and boxing young, real farmers out of the market. By Jim Hightower… Read More ›
Sometimes property can get too intellectual, if you know what I mean. According to Wisconsin’s lieutenant governor, Rebecca Kleefisch, one of the state’s rising industries is something called “agricultural tourism.” Says Kleefisch, “Visitors from all over the world are coming to Wisconsin… Read More ›
(By Sr. Maria Ludgera Haberstroh (Kloster Reute bei Bad Waldsee) Photographer: Horst F. Freudenberger (Own work) [CC-BY-SA-3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0)%5D, via Wikimedia Commons) Because farms grow food, and some Americans need help purchasing food, SNAP (Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program), more commonly known… Read More ›
(CAFO hogs by USGS [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons) If you operate a wealthy “mega farm” in Wisconsin or anywhere else in the nation, some lawmakers in Congress are working hard to make sure you keep receiving unlimited federal subsidies; in fact,… Read More ›
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