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Vilsack’s Baiting Rhetoric

USDA Secretary Tom Vilsack reportedly is asking farm groups how many farmers and how much farmland have gone away since 1981. He then cites the number of farmers lost as 437,100 and farmland as 141 million acres. He’s asking farm leaders if they are “okay” with those losses? First, farm groups should tell Secretary Vilsack that he’s the leader of their pack and he has thousands of experts working for him at USDA. How many farmers and how much farmland does he think there should be? Does he think the Biden Administration’s environmentalist supporters want 141 million acres brought back into production? Does he think farmers should forgo technology in order to justify boosting their labor share by 50 percent?&nbs...

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