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Category Archives: Farming
A Difficult And Strange Season Of Weather
By Carmen Black (Editor’s Note: Iowa Farmers deal with an existential reality that is the weather. Regardless of increasingly polarized discussions about climate change, weather affects real people in tangible ways. Carmen recently wrote this piece to members of her … Continue reading
Posted in Farming, Local Food
Tagged Community Supported Agriculture, farming, Iowa weather, Local food, sustainability
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Tim Gannon For Agriculture – An Easy Decision
Supporting Tim Gannon for Iowa Secretary of Agriculture is an easy decision. Iowa Democrats want and need a secretary of agriculture that understands the current farm economy and is willing and capable of moving the state toward sustainability in agriculture. … Continue reading
Rural Iowa Not A Hegemony
As “progress” causes big changes stresses start to show. Few can write as well as Art Cullen the Pulitzer Prize winning editor at the Storm Lake Times. Fewer still seem to be able to understand the changes that are going on … Continue reading
Posted in Blog for Iowa, Economy, Farming
Tagged Art Cullen, farm economy, Storm Lake Times
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Why Don’t Iowa Farmers Export More to Europe?
During a brief appearance at Northeast Iowa Community College in Peosta on Thursday, President Trump claimed a trade breakthrough with European allies. “We just opened up Europe for you,” he said. Not so fast! On Saturday, European Union Commission President … Continue reading
Posted in 2018 Election Campaign, Farming, Trade
Tagged corn. soybeans, EU, European Union, farming, GMOs, Iowa soybeans, Trade, trade war
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Cindy Axne: Coming On Strong
There were some surprising fund raising numbers for Iowa’s congressional candidate released early in the week. Perhaps one of the biggest surprises was Cindy Axne in Iowa’s 3rd district outraising incumbent David Young by over $100,000. Perhaps even as surprising … Continue reading
Posted in 2018 Election Campaign, Blog for Iowa, Economy, Education, Farming, Health Care & Medicare, Social Security
Tagged Cindy Axne
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Killing The Economy Part 1 – The Farm Bill
Got this email from Iowa CCI Thursday looking for stories from farmers concerning the new Farm Bill that is weaving its way through the Republican controlled US House and US Senate. If you haven’t heard, this bill has many repugnant … Continue reading
Posted in #trumpresistance, Blog for Iowa, economic inequality, Economic Justice, Economy, Farming
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There Is A Family Dairy Farm Crisis
Things are bad when the coop sends the suicide hotline number with the milk payment. Milk prices are currently about $15 per hundred weight while cost of production at family farms is more than $22 per hundred weight. Like so … Continue reading
Posted in Farming
Tagged Dairy farming, farming, politics, sustainability
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Earth Day ALERT: Bayer, Monsanto Merger Nears
A little reminder dropped into my mailbox the other day from a group known as “Friends of the Earth.” The reminder was that the mega merger of Bayer and Monsanto was still in the works and had recently passed some … Continue reading
Posted in #trumpresistance, Blog for Iowa, Economy, Farming, food
Tagged Bayer, merger, Monsanto
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Breaking The Grip of Corporate Ag on Rural Iowa
Jefferson County Farmers and Neighbors, Inc. P.O. Box 811, Fairfield, IA 52556 jfan@lisco.com • http://www.jfaniowa.org • 641-209-6600 Award-winning agricultural journalist Alan Guebert on Breaking Free of Corporate Ag – JFAN Annual Meeting Factory farming has a stranglehold on rural Iowa, … Continue reading
Posted in #trumpresistance, Farming
Tagged big ag in Iowa, corporate ag, corporate greed, Factory farming in Iowa, Jefferson County Farmers and Neighbors, Rural Iowa
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Grit Alone Won’t Protect Local Food Systems
The marketplace of home vegetable gardens, community supported agriculture, farmers markets, road side vegetable stands, restaurants, retail interests and direct farm sales hasn’t coalesced into a sustainable local food system, and may not. One should never doubt the resilience of … Continue reading
Posted in Farming, Local Food
Tagged farming, Local food, sustainability
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