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Another View: Congress should pass a fiscally responsible farm bill extension
Meet the New Dust Bowl, Same as the Old Dust Bowl
Farm Bill: More for Millionaire Farmers, Less for Poor Kids
With high crop prices, high land prices and guaranteed business income thanks to federal crop insurance, farm businesses are doing very well, thank you very much. The Bloomberg news service reports...
Farm Bill Extension: Support Stewards, Not Insurance Subsidies
With only five legislative weeks left, Congress must vote to extend the farm bill, but it must do it in a way that reflects the nation's spending priorities, supports family farmers and protects the...
Dairy’s Downward Spiral a Consequence of Broken Biofuels Policy
California dairymen are being regularly referred to suicide hotlines as many go broke from rising feed costs, the San Francisco Chronicle reports.
Fresh Start Needed on Overripe Farm Bill
If there was one message from yesterday's voting, it's that taxpayers – regardless of party – are worried about the nation's economy and finances.
Can Obama Depend on Dependent Farmers?
EWG, Public Citizen Seek Court Backing for S.F. Cell Phone Radiation Law
The Environmental Working Group and Public Citizen have asked the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit to support a San Francisco law that would require cell phone retailers to distribute a...
Regulation Works
Environmental Groups Sue California for Failing to Regulate Fracking
The Fallacy of Farm Politics (Bitter Harvest Revisited)
Despite all the attention being paid to the farm bill by political candidates, the coming elections are not likely to be decided by agricultural policy positions. In the run-up to Election Day, you...
BPA: Recent Research Shows Continued Need for Government Action
Fracking Leases May Lower Property Values, Default Mortgages
Hydraulic fracturing to extract oil and gas may enrich drillers - but at a prohibitive cost for some landowners near wells.
New Study Paints Corn Ethanol As Eco-Unfriendly
In May 2009, Steve Ruh, who was then chair of the National Corn Growers Association's Ethanol Committee, called corn ethanol the “most environmentally friendly fuel available today.”
Type 3 Diabetes?
Americans Eat Their Weight in Genetically Engineered Food
Americans are eating their weight and more in genetically engineered food every year, a new Environmental Working Group analysis shows.
Making a Good Farm Bill Program Better: Specialty Crop Grants in California
Compared to the billions that the government pays to subsidize industrial-scale growers of commodity crops such as corn, rice and soybeans, federal farm bill spending to promote cultivation and...
The Speech the Industrial Ag Lobby Doesn’t Want You to Hear
Consumers are asking important and legitimate questions about what they are eating and feeding to their children.
Same Dirty Fuel, Same Dirty Tricks
Corn ethanol boosters held yet another pep rally today (Sept. 27) for a dirty, inefficient fuel that has eliminated jobs, increased the price of food and gas, damaged engines and increased pollution...
Don't wipe out: The hidden hazards of antibacterial wipes
Grocery stores dispense them for wiping down carts, gyms, for spiffing up exercise equipment. Some schools hand them out so kids can scrub their desks and ask parents for wipes as back-to-school...