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Podcast: Farmland ownership in the U.S. and how it relates to food security

By Johnathan Hettinger/Midwest Center for Investigative Reporting | July 24, 2017

What does an increases in foreign investment mean for farmers in Iowa? IowaWatch Connection, a statewide radio program, dug into the issue of foreign investment and food security.

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U.S. files complaint against China over trade violations

By Johnathan Hettinger/Midwest Center for Investigative Reporting | December 15, 2016

The complaint, the 15th filed against China by the Obama administration since 2009, argues that China is not “transparent, predictable or fair” in its administration of tariff-rate quotients, which protect its domestic farmers by taxing imports at a higher rate.

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  • #AgAlerts: Atrazine; salmonella; Russian soybeans

    A roundup of news, reports, and research on agribusiness and related issues. EPA weakens safeguards for weed killer Atrazine, linked to birth defects | Civileats.com    The Trump administration plans to weaken environmental safeguards for atrazine, the second most widely used herbicide in the U.S., even though it’s known to castrate frogs and is linked to birth defects and cancer in humans and animals.

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  • Opinion: Dissonance is USDA secretary’s stock in trade

    It's a head scratcher.  For unfathomable reasons USDA Secretary Sonny Perdue's connotative discourse has created self-inflicted wounds for the White House.There was Purdue's brain-fart on August 7 at a farm show in Minnesota.  With farmers facing record bankruptcies and dwindling profits due to President Trump’s trade war with China Purdue showed little empathy for the farmer's plight: “I had a farmer tell me this in Pennsylvania,” Perdue said.  “He said, ‘What do you call two farmers in a basement?’ I said ‘I don’t know, what do you call them?'” Perdue said the farmer said: “A whine cellar.” Needless to say, farmers were not amused. Or how about Purdue's unwillingness to acknowledge humanity's culpability in climate change.   There was this and this and this.  With that kind of track record it's not surprising that Purdue all but dismantled USDA's Economic Research Service.

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  • Brazil’s Implementation of Tariff Rate Quota for Wheat a Win for American Farmers

    Washington, D.C., November 14, 2019 - U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer and U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue welcome Brazil's implementation of an annual duty-free tariff rate quota (TRQ) of 750,000 metric tons (MT) of wheat imports. For many years, Brazil failed to implement its obligation under the WTO to establish a TRQ for wheat.

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