Who will farm for us in the future? Or is the plan to get all our food from factories, made from inputs of soy or corn or some genetically engineered grain or bean?
If farming remains generally unprofitable, what will be the future of food? This problem is up to us to recognize, and to fix.
According to the Farm Bureau’s AgWeb:
An allergy to red meat is spreading via ticks, and two bioethics professors think the spread should be encouraged to save the planet.
Millions of animals die during transport to slaughterhouses each year due to consolidation in the meatpacking industry.
The MAHA Strategy to Assist Farms and Rural America has been watered down, and antitrust enforcement is under pressure.
U.S. farmers face a suicide rate 3.5 times higher than the general population, a stark indicator of the intense stress in agriculture.
The federal government fails at encouraging farmers to improve their soil. How federal subsidies can boost soil health for better food and real sustainability.
What is a checkoff, and what does it have to do with dinner?