Tag: ag policy
US Labor Dept.: Less pay means more farm employees
A crackdown on undocumented workers and cuts to farm wages threaten U.S. food production. Labor shortages grow as Americans reject farm jobs.
Sometimes you need to put lipstick on a pig — or...
Alan Guebert weighs in on the failures of current agriculture policies in the United States.
If you want change, then you are in the right place
If you are one of the millions of Americans who pollsters say “voted for change” last November, boy, are you getting it now, according to Alan Guebert.
New, long overdue efforts to reform federal commodity checkoffs
A long-overdue, new checkoff reform effort is underway in Congress. Alan Guebert weighs in on why it's needed.
USDA puts $3 billion into ‘deeply flawed’ Climate Smart Commodities program
Even at first glance, the U.S. Department of Agriculture's recently announced $3 billion Partnerships for Climate-Smart Commodities sounds like doublespeak.
Agricultural policy was about cultural stability, not endless market growth
Alan Guebert proposes putting citizens and communities at the center of ag policy instead of markets and consumers and seeing what happens.
Could California’s Proposition 12 be an opportunity for farmers?
Alan Guebert weighs in on the perceptions of California's Proposition 12, which aims to set minimum welfare standards for livestock and poultry products.
Our money, their mouth, your choice
If put in charge, would Republicans really cut crop insurance, gut CRP and eliminate dairy and sugar programs or is their Blueprint more baloney than beef?
Food system strains help shape 2023 Farm Bill priorities for ag...
Several years of turmoil for agriculture are shaping priorities for the 2023 Farm Bill for farm groups, and for legislators, as events have strained food and farming systems.
Keep moving, nothing to see here
Alan Guebert traces the money wasted on the Market Facilitation Program and explains why it was a USDA failure.
