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NAFTA: Putting family farmers out of business since 1994
Op-ed by Patti Naylor, Darvin Bentlage, John Harter and Christopher Mosel Originally posted August 30, 2019, at desmoinesregister.com Two longtime Iowa politicians, Sen. Charles Grassley and now dairy industry lobbyist Tom Vilsack, held a press conference recently touting the gains for farmers from President Trump’s newly negotiated NAFTA. We’re family farmers and we’ve heard this same line ...
Op-ed by George Naylor – Agriculture or agribusiness? As Iowa goes…
Originally posted at desmoinesregister.com Here we go again. Presidential hopefuls are descending on Iowa like saviors from on high, feigning to listen to “we, the voters.” With frequent news stories about how our farming practices affect others downstream (like water consumers in Des Moines and fishers in the Gulf of Mexico), or how patented GMO seed ...
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