#Farms

Jennifer Grayson.  A Call to Farms: Reconnecting to Nature, Food, and Community in a Modern World.  Countryman Press, 2024. What a great title! I did a blurb for Jennifer Grayson’s previous book, Unlatched: The Evolution of Breastfeeding and the Making of a Controversy, and was happy to have the

Every now and then the USDA puts out a collection of its latest charts. These provide lots of information at a glance.  Here are three quick examples:  What’s happened to farms in the US over the past 200 years.  The number of farms has gone way down; the size has gone way up. 2. This one is

The USDA has just published its latest food dollar series.  (And see below for international data.) And here’s how all that is distributed. If you are a farmer, you get an average of just over 7 cents on the dollar. The real money is in processing, retail, and food service—added value,

The USDA’s Economic Research Service was damaged serriously when the Trump Administration moved its offices out of Washington DC to Kansas, and it is taking some time to recover. It’s still publishing what it calls Charts of Note. These are on all kinds of topics dealing with farm production and

North Dakota AG Investigates Bill Gates Farmland Purchase The North Dakota Attorney General's office is investigating a land transaction involving one of the biggest farmland owners in America, billionaire Bill Gates.  In a letter dated June 21, Attorney General Drew Wrigley's