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Book Excerpt: Commodities and Consolidation

Food Tank

The Wall Street Farm Bill was precisely the sort of law that President Truman warned about in 1948. The sort of balance encouraged by the New Deal Farm Bill preserved economic stability and insulated farmers from fluctuations in prices. That’s why less than 10 percent of farms still have animals.

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Understanding the farmer protests 

Sustainable Food Trust

How can we best understand and relate to the farmer protests which are going on all over Europe, including down the road from our farm in West Wales? Accordingly, new policies are being designed which restrict future subsidies only to farming systems which deliver so-called ‘public goods’.

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