Showing posts with label farming. Show all posts
Showing posts with label farming. Show all posts
Marlo Lewis: The EPA vs. State Economies
Driving up the price of corn. On Friday, the Environmental Protection Agency rejected petitions from the governors of Georgia, Texas, Arkansas, Delaware, Maryland, New Mexico, and North Carolina to suspend the biofuel-blending requirements established by the federal renewable fuel standard (RFS) program. This program requires refiners to blend increasing ... MOREWisconsin Raw Milk Advocates Hope For Jury Nullification
Citizens look for tyranny protection. Supporters of a Wisconsin dairy farmer facing a criminal trial for
selling raw milk hope they can turn up interest in jury nullification
among residents of Sauk County who might be seated to hear his case. As Rick Barrett reports in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, a
Washington-based group defending the ... MORE
Baylen Linnekin: Is Organic Food A Waste Of Money?
New study challenges conventional wisdom. Everyone knows by now that organic foods are aren’t objectively superior to their conventional counterparts. Right? Exactly. Many of us have been told for years that organic food was healthier (for people, streams, bees, cows, Gaia, etc.) than conventional alternatives. But others have disagreed. ... MOREKatie Kieffer: RINOS Play FarmVille
Farming is a game to RINOS (Republicans In Name Only). But farming is not a game. Not in America. We are the world’s No. 1 exporter of wheat, corn and soybeans. If we mess up, global food prices soar, livestock die, and streets erupt in riots. The GOP is supposed to be the party that “gets” economics. Republicans pride themselves ... MOREDavid Pitt: Midwest Ranchers Protest EPA Drone Flyovers
Drones deployed to troll for fineable violations. Midwest ranchers have never been enamored with environmental regulators, but they really began to complain after learning that federal inspectors were flying over their land to look for problems. The Environmental Protection Agency flies over power plants and other facilities nationwide to identify ... MOREThe Case Against Taxpayer-Funded Crop Insurance
by Baylen Linnekin. The Farm Bill, that quintessentially quinquennial congressional replenishment of the pork trough from which many of America’s farmers indulge, is now upon us. Late last month the bill, dubbed the Agriculture Reform, Food and Jobs Act of 2012, cleared what will likely be its biggest hurdle when the bipartisan Senate Agriculture ... MOREJay Ambrose: Regulation A Mess -- Action Needed Soon
The dictates of our betters. Always fearful there might be some human activity left unregulated, the federal government was recently getting ready to stop children from doing some farm chores, causing farmers to grumble. This is an election year. Farmers vote. And President Barack Obama's electoral caregivers responded to the grumbling by ... MOREPhil Kerpen: Republicans Need To Stand For Free Market
And, that includes agriculture. I once saw a very conservative member of Congress, someone I respect and with whom I have worked on many issues, tell a room full of free-market activists that he considers himself 99 percent free market capitalist and 1 percent socialist – when it comes to agricultural subsidies. This is a pretty common mentality in ... MOREStephen Dinan: Amish Farm Shut Down For Selling Milk
Your tax money at work. The FDA won its two-year fight to shut down an Amish farmer who was selling fresh raw milk to eager consumers in the Washington, D.C., region after a judge this month banned Daniel Allgyer from selling his milk across state lines and he told his customers he would shut down his farm altogether. The decision has enraged Mr. Allgyer's ... MOREJon Entine: Over-Regulation Fever At The White House
Don’t drink tap water. Beware the coming environmental apocalypse. It’s election season, and advocacy groups are turning up the heat on the Environmental Protection Agency. Will the Obama Administration buckle in this über-political time and give in to alarmism? The target du jour is atrazine, the American farmer’s most popular weed killer, but it’s ... MOREBLOOMBERG: Farmers Making $100 Billion Get Subsidies
A perverse system of misguided incentives. Imagine an industry on a roll. Its income surpassed the $100 billion mark last year for the first time. On top of these riches, those in the business got an additional $25 billion or so in federal handouts. The 1 percenters of Wall Street? Not even close. The beneficiaries are America’s farmers, or to be more ... MOREPeter Wilson: Politicizing The Farmers' Market
Farmers don't need politicians and do-gooders to run market. I don't understand those "No Farms, No Food" bumper stickers you see around places like Cambridge and Berkeley. Isn't it obvious? Why not "No toy factories, no toys?" "No Apple, No iPods?" "No Chickens, No Eggs?" (Or is it the other way around) Is there a nefarious anti-farm lobby I don't know about? ... MORE
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