Unseriousness of Campaign Promises If the polls are correct, Joe Biden is elected president tomorrow and the question is what changes besides civility? Looking at his campaign promises potentially impacting agriculture there is a lot of repetition from the past, a past that was mostly different at the margins. Here are just a few of the more cynical items in the candidate’s quiver:
Regional Food Systems: Mr. Biden’s support for small, local food supply chains is a rehash of the locavore movement during the Obama-Biden era. The number of small farms has increased, there are more so-called farmers’ markets and CSA’s, but Big Ag still dominates the supply chain. In the larger scheme of things, and it is large, sma...
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What You Need to Know Today: Corn and soybeans were under heavy selling pressure as weaker (or at least as-expected) export demand runs into an accelerating harvest pace with more grain available in the spot market. Corn and soybean harvest progress remains below average across the U.S., espec...
Yesterday, Alberta held a referendum on whether to begin the process toward independence from Canada. With more than one million votes counted as of early Tuesday morning, around 77 percent supported remaining in Canada, and 23 percent voted to start the process of separation, according to unof...
