Politics messes trade flows – the ugly details
Guy Trafford unstitches the signals from the latest dairy auction, the mess politics has made of American farm exports, and looks at the unseemly ignoring of drought assistance for east coast farmers.
‘Not as Wisconsin Nice as We Used to Be’: The Divisions in Dairyland
Keeping the polls open in a pandemic is just one example of the state pushing political partisanship to the extreme.
The Wisconsin State Legislature couldn’t agree on who to honor for Black History Month.
Ex-agriculture secretary Tom Vilsack is the top paid executive at Dairy Management
Former U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Thomas Vilsack last year became the highest paid executive at Dairy Management Inc, with his pay coming within $579 of topping $1 million.
Wisconsin’s Statehouse Is at War Over Its Dairy Crisis
The state senate just fired the governor-appointed agriculture secretary.
Dairy crisis: How Wisconsin trading partners Canada and Mexico are surviving
Alfredo Gutiérrez wakes up some nights, so worried about how to keep his family’s small dairy farm going that he can’t get back to sleep.
Trump is lying to farmers’ faces, and they’re finally getting angry about it
One of the worst habits among the D.C. commentariat is the tendency to treat President Trump’s lies as if they possess magical qualities. We are constantly told that Trump’s lying “works,” a claim that rests on the idea that no matter what Trump says, his supporters will believe him.
‘Trump is ruining our markets’: Struggling farmers are losing a huge customer to the trade war — China
U.S. farmers lost one of their biggest customers this week after China officially cancelled all purchases of U.S. agricultural products, a retaliatory move following President Donald Trump’s pledge to slap 10% tariffs on $300 billion of Chinese imports.
An edible token of esteem: The 1,325-pound cheese given to Thomas Jefferson
The president’s foes dubbed it the ‘Mammoth Cheese’
OBAMA’S AGRICULTURE SECRETARY, NOW WORKING FOR THE DAIRY INDUSTRY, URGES 2020 DEMOCRATS TO BE NICE TO THE DAIRY INDUSTRY
IN A CAMPAIGN speech on Sunday at the Swine Arena in Osage, Iowa, Sen. Bernie Sanders outlined an agricultural policy rooted in breaking the power of vertically integrated farm monopolies.
