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Iowa’s food landscape can become like Italy’s — if the “barons” who captured the American farmstand can be defeated, a new book argues. Barons, published on Tuesday by Austin Frerick, a native Iowan and Yale food policy fellow, argues that a runaway process of monopoly has gutted rural America while bleeding the taste from American food.…
The National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition on Tuesday released a new report titled Unsustainable: State of the Farm Safety Net. The report is an analysis of the accessibility and concentration of public dollars distributed through crop...
Washington, DC, February 20, 2024 – Today, the National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition (NSAC) released a new report titled Unsustainable: State of the Farm Safety Net, which features a comprehensive analysis of the accessibility and concentration of...
Some farmers say their business models depend on the crop insurance and getting rid of the program would drive up food prices.
USDA is expanding and enhancing crop insurance product for fruits, vegetables and other specialty crops and considering some additional steps that could help address the sector’s priorities. But some additional funding and statutory authority may be needed in the next farm bill to make changes sought by growers, according to the Risk Management Agency.