Mastodawn

David Scott legacy powerful influence on agriculture and Congress

David Scott legacy powerful influence on agriculture and Congress as the longtime lawmaker’s death reshapes policy debates and House control

https://thedemocracyadvocate.com/news-to-know/u-s-politics/david-scott-legacy/

Tina M Casey Apr 6

Solar panels on farmland can save crops, not harm them.

https://cleantechnica.com/2026/04/05/agrivoltaics-can-save-us-farmers-in-more-ways-than-one/

#agrivoltaic #agrisolar #agripv #solarpower #solarenergy #solar #energy #solargrazing #agriculture #energycrops #solarpv #farms #farmers #farming #usfarms #farmpolicy #energypolicy #foodsystems

Agrivoltaics Can Save Farmers From Wind Damage, Too

A new study describes how agrivoltaic systems can reduce wind damage and soil loss, outperforming natural windbreaks.

CleanTechnica

Tina M Casey Apr 6

Solar panels on farmland can save crops, not harm them.

https://cleantechnica.com/2026/04/05/agrivoltaics-can-save-us-farmers-in-more-ways-than-one/

#agrivoltaic #agrisolar #agripv #solarpower #solarenergy #solar #energy #solargrazing #agriculture #energycrops #solarpv #farms #farmers #farming #usfarms #farmpolicy #energypolicy #foodsystems

Agrivoltaics Can Save Farmers From Wind Damage, Too

A new study describes how agrivoltaic systems can reduce wind damage and soil loss, outperforming natural windbreaks.

CleanTechnica

Tina M Casey Oct 2, 2025

Guess who got fooled again...

https://cleantechnica.com/2025/10/02/trump-to-us-farmers-drop-dead-were-going-full-maga-make-argentina-great-again/

#agrivoltaics #farmers #usfarmers #argentinabailout #soybeans #tariffs #trumptariffs #farmpolicy #renewableenergy #energy #solarenergy

Trump To US Farmers: Drop Dead While I Help Argentina

US farmers will have to wait for their tariff bailout while Argentina gets a $20 billion assistance package from President Trump.

CleanTechnica

Tina M Casey Oct 2, 2025

Guess who got fooled again...

https://cleantechnica.com/2025/10/02/trump-to-us-farmers-drop-dead-were-going-full-maga-make-argentina-great-again/

#agrivoltaics #farmers #usfarmers #argentinabailout #soybeans #tariffs #trumptariffs #farmpolicy #renewableenergy #energy #solarenergy

Trump To US Farmers: Drop Dead While I Help Argentina

US farmers will have to wait for their tariff bailout while Argentina gets a $20 billion assistance package from President Trump.

CleanTechnica

Steve Dustcircle 🌹Sep 8, 2025

The Federal #FarmPolicy Trap: Why Some #Farmers Are Stuck Raising #Crops That No Longer Thrive

https://www.propublica.org/article/illinois-farming-soy-corn-flooding-subsidies-insurance

The Federal Farm Policy Trap: Why Some Farmers Are Stuck Raising Crops That No Longer Thrive

Some farmers keep growing in flood- and drought-prone fields because subsidies soften the losses, while federal programs meant to help them change course have been underfunded and mired in bureaucracy. Under Trump, those programs may weaken further.

ProPublica

Beestrot.com Apr 29, 2025

Trump's first 100 days back in office have sparked major concerns over food security, farm policy, and fairness. Here's what advocates and experts are saying!
#FoodJustice #FarmPolicy #ClimateCrisis #fedivore #homechef #cookingmastodon #foodie #beestrot

https://civileats.com/2025/04/29/op-ed-trumps-disastrous-first-100-days-for-food-farming-and-fairness/

Op-ed: Trump’s Disastrous First 100 Days for Food, Farming, and Fairness

A look back on this notable benchmark as the Trump Administration cuts funding for critical programs across the food system.

Civil Eats

Permaculture and Politics 🇺🇸Jan 11, 2025

Politicus USA:
"One of the ways that Trump and Republicans are planning on paying for their tax cuts to billionaires is to cut aid to SNAP which benefits both the food insecure and farmers."
#foodinsecurity #TFG #farming #FarmPolicy

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Kathy E. Gill 🇺🇦Aug 19, 2024

Guess what? The FTC found in March that “large grocers took advantage of pandemic supply chain disruptions”

But the @washingtonpost
editorial board thinks grocery stores have zippo inflation impact.

#USpolitics #FoodPolicy #FarmPolicy

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/21/us/politics/grocery-prices-pandemic-ftc.html#:~:text=346-,Large%20Grocers%20Took%20Advantage%20of%20Pandemic%20Supply%20Chain%20Disruptions%2C%20F.T.C.,opportunity%20to%20further%20hike%20prices.”

Large Grocers Took Advantage of Pandemic Supply Chain Disruptions, F.T.C. Finds

A report found that large firms pressured suppliers to favor them over competitors. It also concluded that some retailers “seem to have used rising costs as an opportunity to further hike prices.”

The New York Times

Kathy E. Gill 🇺🇦Aug 17, 2024

In an editorial criticizing Vice President Kamala Harris for her speech on Friday, the Washington Post claimed that it’s “hard to see how groceries” qualify as a perpetrator of “excessive” profits.

The food system is broken, whether the Washington Post editorial board thinks so or not.

Democracy dies in willful ignorance.

#USpolitics
#FoodPolicy
#FarmPolicy

https://themoderatevoice.com/wapo-editorial-board-demonstrates-it-doesnt-understand-economics/

WaPo editorial board demonstrates it doesn’t understand economics – The Moderate Voice

The US food system is broken, whether the Washington Post editorial board thinks so or not. Democracy dies in willful ignorance.