Congress Just Passed a Farm Bill That Legalizes Industrial Hemp. Other Than That, It's a Disaster.
The House Freedom Caucus calls it "a sprawling, cronyist agriculture bill."
Farming
This Chart Explains How Badly Trump's Trade War Is Hurting Soybean Farmers
And it could get worse, as China is now considering cutting off all American soybean purchases.
Trump's Bailout Won't Save Soybean Farmers
Soybean prices have fallen as much as 30 percent since planting season, and harvest is fast approaching.
High Yield Modern Farming Better for the Environment, Says Nature Study
Low yield organic farming uses up lots more land and harms biodiversity
If You Hate Ice Ages, Thank a Farmer
Chopping down forests and irrigating rice paddies boosted greenhouse gases enough to prevent the onset of a new ice age
Arizonans Get More Freedom to Operate Food Trucks, Grow Hemp
Maybe don't do both, though.
Trump Says He's 'Delivering' for Farmers. His Steel Tariff Says Otherwise
"There's not a day on the farm when a farmer doesn't touch steel," says Rep. David Young. And all that steel is about to get more expensive.
Florida Government Employee Arrested for Mining Cryptocurrencies at Work
Florida man accused of ripping off government agency that rips off taxpayers.
Upstate N.Y. Town Defeats Anti-Farming Bill
A dispute with neighbor spurred a measure to crack down on smaller properties. But the town's large agricultural community fought back.
States Partner to Sue Massachusetts, California Over Costly Livestock Bans
Two states attempt to dictate how farmers outside their boundaries treat their animals.
Statist Just-So Stories
The author of Seeing Like a State casts a skeptical eye on the conventional wisdom about the cradle of civilization.
Current Farm Bill Waste Targeted as Congress Moves Toward Next Farm Bill
Two new efforts in Washington seek to rein in the subsidies.
Finally Fake Meat that Tastes Deliciously Like the Real Thing
Tasty Impossible Burger uses 95 percent less land, uses 74 percent less water, and emits 87 percent less greenhouse gas.
Environmental Protection Agency
How Obama's EPA Nearly Bankrupted John Duarte's Farm
A controversial rule on water pollution allowed the agency to micromanage private land use.
Hemp Comes Home
Legal hemp has returned to Kentucky. Will the Feds step aside and let the industry flourish?
Momentum Building to Cast Off USDA Checkoff Marketing Programs
Two lawsuits and action in Congress indicate wasteful, unconstitutional mandates may be on their way out.
PRIME Act Would Help Put the 'Local' Back in Local Meat Production
States could set their own rules for meat that's processed and sold within their own borders.
Subsidies Encourage Maine Farmers to Keep Growing Too Many Blueberries
The market can't fix the problem when government insists on intervention.
Corporate Farming Laws a Bad Deal for Farmers
A farmer in Kansas who wants to sell his property challenges the state's law.
Lawmakers and Regulators Act Like They Hate Farmers Markets
Existential threats from meddlesome rulemakers
Hemp and Pot Restrictions Not Dying Fast Enough
The push for legalization-particularly farming-is being hampered by in a number of ways.
Tomato Growers Lose Millions Thanks to False FDA Warning, Courts' Failure to Act
What happens when a food's link to salmonella is proven false? Nothing.
Record Temperatures and Record Grain Yields
Climate model projections of wheat yields are just stupid
Hooray for Factory Farming!
It's is good for the environment and it feeds people too.
Why the USDA Shouldn't Be Buying Up Surplus Cheese
The feds are bailing out dairy producers. Here's why that's a terrible and wasteful mistake.
Dumped Cherries a Reminder of Awfulness of USDA Marketing Orders
Hurting farmers and consumers. Squeezing out competitors. Forcing production abroad. Causing food waste. What's not to love?
Massachusetts Voters Could Have Egg on Their Faces
Ballot measure will decide in November whether to impose unwise, harmful, costly, and unconstitutional standards for raising a host of livestock animals.
Starved by Socialist Policies, Venezuelans Urged to Take Up Urban Farming
The Ministry of Urban Agriculture promotes home and community gardening in hunger-wrecked Venezuelan cities.
Without Herbicides, Food Itself Would Be Impossible*
Or at least about half of corn and soybeans would be impossible
First Farm Run Entirely by Robots to Open in Japan
The fully automated indoor farm will produce 30,000 heads of lettuce per day.
Right-to-Farm Debate Heats Up
Controversies over laws in all 50 states that protect the rights of farmers to actually farm.
What Global Food Crisis?: Ronald Bailey's Wall Street Journal Review of The Reproach of Hunger
Neo-Malthusians still get it wrong: Markets and science will feed 9 billion if not blocked.
Judge Strikes Down Idaho's 'Ag Gag' Law as Unconstitutional
Dairy protection legislation criminalized secret filming of abusive treatment of farm animals.
FrankenMoths Attack Organic Farmers in Upstate New York
Or so some hyperventilating scaremongering nitwits would have you think.
Raisin Farmers Fight for Crop Control
Supreme Court hears case of USDA agricultural takings.
Ronald Bailey Explains How Real Factories Will Replace Factory Farms
Room for buffalo to roam and antelope to play.
