The Farm BillPub Date : 2019-11-28DOI: 10.5822/978-1-61091-975-3_19
D. Imhoff, Christina Badaracoo
{"title":"Energy and Climate Change","authors":"D. Imhoff, Christina Badaracoo","doi":"10.5822/978-1-61091-975-3_19","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5822/978-1-61091-975-3_19","url":null,"abstract":"Energy is the driving force behind all contemporary economic activities, and food production and farming operations are no exception. From natural gas-rich nitrogen fertilizers, to power for irrigation and processing, to fossil fuels for cars, ships, trucks, tractors, and laser-guided farm equipment, to the gas and electricity we use at home to cook and refrigerate, energy is gobbled up in every stage along the way (figure 33).","PeriodicalId":333357,"journal":{"name":"The Farm Bill","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-11-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129553118","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
The Farm BillPub Date : 1900-01-01DOI: 10.5822/978-1-61091-975-3_11
D. Imhoff, Christina Badaracoo
{"title":"Agribusiness versus Family Farms","authors":"D. Imhoff, Christina Badaracoo","doi":"10.5822/978-1-61091-975-3_11","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5822/978-1-61091-975-3_11","url":null,"abstract":"BILLIONS OF FARM BILL DOLLARS flow into America’s rural communities each year to boost income for farmers, who continue to face cycles of financial, environmental, and agricultural challenges. But are the farmers and landowners who cash those subsidy checks the ultimate beneficiaries of these programs, or are other interests being served? Following the money trail involves understanding the complex circumstances surrounding what it means to be a “farm.” It also requires focusing on why the government singles out so few crops for the majority of subsidies. Finally, it means drilling down into deep divides: family farms versus corporate mega-farms, producers versus buyers, and commodity versus diversified agriculture.","PeriodicalId":333357,"journal":{"name":"The Farm Bill","volume":"58 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115983601","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
The Farm BillPub Date : 1900-01-01DOI: 10.5822/978-1-61091-975-3_8
D. Imhoff, Christina Badaracoo
{"title":"The Conservation Era","authors":"D. Imhoff, Christina Badaracoo","doi":"10.5822/978-1-61091-975-3_8","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5822/978-1-61091-975-3_8","url":null,"abstract":"The 1972 deal to sell US surplus grain to the Soviet Union— and the subsequent commodity crop price spike—set off a decadelong fury of borrowing, speculation, and agricultural expansion (followed by the inevitable overproduction and price collapse). Particularly caught up in the euphoria were farmers in the Prairie Pothole Region, which spans parts of Iowa and Minnesota, North Dakota, South Dakota, northeastern Montana, Saskatchewan, and Alberta. The Pothole Region—rolling hills and grasslands pocked by wetlands—is also called North America’s duck factory, because up to 60 percent of waterfowl are hatched in this habitat.1 The region is also important for storing water, filtering water, and storing carbon in soils.","PeriodicalId":333357,"journal":{"name":"The Farm Bill","volume":"87 2 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123638988","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
The Farm BillPub Date : 1900-01-01DOI: 10.5822/978-1-61091-975-3_7
D. Imhoff, Christina Badaracoo
{"title":"The Changing Face of Hunger","authors":"D. Imhoff, Christina Badaracoo","doi":"10.5822/978-1-61091-975-3_7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5822/978-1-61091-975-3_7","url":null,"abstract":"Even more controversial than government intervention in agricultural markets was the other side of the Farm Bill equation: public food distribution and financial assistance for the needy. Until 1932, that responsibility lay solely at the feet of l cal communities and charities. Critics of food assistance programs believed that hunger relief would lead the country ir competition drove food prices to record lows and as displaced farmers and sharecroppers waged protests and joined the staggering unemployment lines during the Great Depression, no resolution appeared to the paradox of want in the midst of overabundance.","PeriodicalId":333357,"journal":{"name":"The Farm Bill","volume":"70 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130553099","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
The Farm BillPub Date : 1900-01-01DOI: 10.5822/978-1-61091-975-3_5
D. Imhoff, Christina Badaracoo
{"title":"Origins of the Farm Bill","authors":"D. Imhoff, Christina Badaracoo","doi":"10.5822/978-1-61091-975-3_5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5822/978-1-61091-975-3_5","url":null,"abstract":"THE IDEA OF A NATION BUILT BY HARD-WORKING, God-fearing farmers taps a deep nerve in the American psyche. In 1801, when Thomas Jefferson became the United States’ third president, 95 percent of the population of the young nation made a full-time living from agriculture. Jefferson envisioned the United States’ democracy as orbiting around a citizenry of yeomen farmers. He wrote:","PeriodicalId":333357,"journal":{"name":"The Farm Bill","volume":"43 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121742377","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
The Farm BillPub Date : 1900-01-01DOI: 10.5822/978-1-61091-975-3_10
D. Imhoff, Christina Badaracoo
{"title":"Nutrition, SNAP, and Healthy Eating","authors":"D. Imhoff, Christina Badaracoo","doi":"10.5822/978-1-61091-975-3_10","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5822/978-1-61091-975-3_10","url":null,"abstract":"THROUGHOUT 2007 AND 2008, Farm Bill negotiations were dominated by discussions of the country’s deepening nutrition crises. Onethird of US adults and 17 percent of children were classified as clinically obese. The ranks of citizens affected by food insecurity swelled to more than 50 million people. Nutrition programs, which already made up 50 percent of Farm Bill spending, were eventually awarded another $10 billion from Congress. The goal was to boost consumption of fruits and vegetables and increase benefits for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) over the next decade. In the midst of the greatest economic downturn since the Great Depression, record numbers of Americans applied for government assistance each month, and SNAP received 80 percent of that increase.1 Per-meal allowances, also known as the Thrifty Food Plan, were raised modestly, after not being updated in more than a decade.","PeriodicalId":333357,"journal":{"name":"The Farm Bill","volume":"62 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121733183","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
The Farm BillPub Date : 1900-01-01DOI: 10.5822/978-1-61091-975-3_26
D. Imhoff, Christina Badaracoo
{"title":"A Vision of Sustainable Food","authors":"D. Imhoff, Christina Badaracoo","doi":"10.5822/978-1-61091-975-3_26","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5822/978-1-61091-975-3_26","url":null,"abstract":"The Farm Bill may be driven by acronyms and technical program language, but what we are essentially talking about is an amazing opportunity to shape our world. The nearly $100 billion annual budget that we spend on food and agriculture is a chance to do things better, more fairly, and to compensate for values that the market does not recognize.","PeriodicalId":333357,"journal":{"name":"The Farm Bill","volume":"11 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131472895","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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