Tag: agriculture
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Jim Hightower: “Wall Street Sodbusters”
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 I love the names: Bobcat Farm, Golden Eagle Ranch, Long Prairie, Ten Mile Farm. They […]
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Sharing Some Intellectual Property
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 to view our advanced agricultural operations, to learn more about our hybrid biotech seeds, to […]
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A “Farm Bill” that Denies Food to the Poor
(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)], via Wikimedia Commons) Because farms grow food, and some Americans need help purchasing food, SNAP (Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program), more commonly known as “food stamps”, and farms have been legislatively linked for some time now. But this […]
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Farm Subsidies & Food Stamps: Stuffing the rich, starving the poor
(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, they are willing to make small dairies and people on food stamps wait longer for milk […]
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