Politics, as they say, makes strange bedfellows, and here I am carefully reading the Cato Institute’s most interesting analysis of farm insurance:Farm Bill Sows Dysfunction for American Agricul...
https://www.foodpolitics.com/2024/05/weekend-reading-the-cato-institute-on-the-farm-bill/
Every five years or so, we have to deal with another farm bill. Like the dietary guidelines, also every five years, the farm bill doesn’t really change much. The arguments about both don’...
https://www.foodpolitics.com/2024/05/the-latest-on-the-forthcoming-eventually-farm-bill/
Science Magazine has this editorial headline: Reverse EU’s growing greenlash** After several weeks of violent protests, European farmers have achieved a tactical triumph that does not bode well...
https://www.foodpolitics.com/2024/03/european-big-ag-in-action/
The Farm Bill is behind schedule, no surprise. The reasons have to do with costs and politics. While Congressional agriculture committees are fussing over it, we have time to see what’s at st...
https://www.foodpolitics.com/2023/08/where-are-we-on-the-current-farm-bill-not-soon/
I try to keep up with what’s going on with the Farm Bill, up for renewal soon. I thought this Civil Eats post by Lisa Held was the best thing I’d seen on it in ages, and got permission from...
https://www.foodpolitics.com/2023/08/the-upcoming-farm-bill-whats-needed-courtesy-of-civil-eats/
Is anyone else as upset as I am about the Debt Limit bill just passed by the House and Senate and signed by the President? Senator Bernie Sanders, maybe. Here’s why he voted against it. Yes, ...
https://www.foodpolitics.com/2023/06/the-debt-limit-bill-a-national-trag/
I’m just getting to this report from Food and Water Watch: The Economic Cost of Food Monopolies: Dirty Dairy Racket Food & Water Watch took a look at what’s happening to the U.S. dairy indust...
https://www.foodpolitics.com/2023/06/weekend-reading-the-loss-of-small-dairy-farms/
If you want to understand why it is politically impossible to transform the Farm Bill into legislation that promotes health, sustainability, and regenerative farming, take a look at the Environme...
Today, Congressman Earl Blumenauer (D-OR) is introducing the Food and Farm Act of 2023. A summary of the bill is here. This legislation is a comprehensive, alternative Farm Bill that advances f...
https://www.foodpolitics.com/2023/03/the-farm-bill-transform-its-focus-to-food-not-feed-or-fuel/
Everyfive years or so, Congress gets to work on a new Farm Bill. This is a big job. I’ve written about the Farm Bill previously. See, for example, my opinion piece in Politico: “The Farm ...
https://www.foodpolitics.com/2022/12/once-again-a-farm-bill-is-in-the-works/