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Supporting Documents for Farm and Food File, Week of January 2, 2022

Background information for “You Can Only Postpone Reality for So Long”
Farm and Food File for the week beginning Sunday, January 2, 2022
A third of Americans deny climate change, The Economist, July 8, 2021
Climate deniers in the 117th Congress, Center for American Progress, March 30, 2021
Is … Farm Credit System ready for climate change? Institute for […]

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Supporting Documents for Farm and Food File, Week of December 26, 2021

Background information for “Goodbye 2021’s High Profits; Hello 2022’s High Costs”
Farm and Food File for the week beginning Sunday, December 26, 2021
2022 Update Crop Budgets, farmdocDaily, Dec. 7, 2021
2022 Wheat Acreage Debate, agricultural economic insights, Nov. 29, 2021
Bob Dole, Obituary, New York Times, Dec. 5, 2021

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Supporting Documents for Farm and Food File, Week of December 12, 2021

Background information for “Tyson Foods: Meatpacking Isn’t for Chickens”
Farm and Food File column for the week beginning Sunday, December 12, 2021
Tyson Foods, Securities and Exchange Commission filings
10-K, Tyson Foods, Inc., Securities and Exchange Commission, Oct. 2, 2021
Chicken price-fixing trial begins, Ontario Farmer, Oct. 29, 2021
Poultry executives face… rare criminal trial, Forbes, Oct. 25, 2021
‘The fix […]

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Supporting Documents for Farm and Food File, Week of December 5, 2021

Background information for “Pod Save the American Farm”
Farm and Food File column for the week beginning Sunday, December 5, 2021
Corn Saves America podcast, Sarah Mock and eai.com
Media consumption trends, What’s New in Publishing, Sept. 23, 2021

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Supporting Documents for Farm and Food File, Week of November 28, 2021

Background information for “The Smartest Person in the Room”
Farm and Food File for the week beginning November 28, 2021
Obituary, Neil E. Harl, Des Moines Register, Nov. 6, 2021
The Elbert Files: Neil E. Harl, 1933-2021, Business Record, Nov. 19, 2021
The Farm Debt Crisis of the 1980s, Neil E. Harl, Iowa State Press, 1990

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Supporting Documents for Farm and Food File, Week of November 21, 2021

Background information for “Lost Angeles and Long Beached”
Farm and Food File for the week beginning Sunday, November 21, 2021
Crunch at ports may mean crisis for American farmers, New York Times, Nov. 14, 2021
Packed ports and empty shelves, CBS 60 Minutes, Nov. 14, 2021
Port delays disrupt CA food exports, Food Manufacturing, Nov. 4, 2021
Port crisis requires […]

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Supporting Documents for Farm and Food File, Week of November 14, 2021

Background information for “Too Much Money, Too Much Drift, Too Much Grift”
Farm and Food File column for the week beginning Sunday, November 14, 2021
Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis, U.S. House of Representatives
“Farmers to Families,” Subcommittee Report on 2020 USDA coronavirus food aid program, October 13, 2021
Coronavirus Infections and deaths among meatpackers workers, Subcommittee Memorandum on […]

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Supporting Documents for Farm and Food File, Week of November 7, 2021

Background information for “Mother Nature Doesn’t Do ‘Net Zero’”
Farm and Food File column for the week beginning Sunday, November 7, 2021
What’s a COP, COP26, Glasgow
Glasgow Climate Change Summit, daily news portal, COP26
Growth through contraction, Conceiving and eco-economy, William Rees, real-world economics review, July 21, 2021

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Supporting Documents for Farm and Food File, Week of October 31, 2021

Background information for “Cresting the Wave, Looking Into Next Year’s Trough”
Farm and Food File for the week beginning Sunday, October 31, 2021
Stress Test for 2022 Crop Returns, farmdocDAILY.illinois.edu, Aug. 22, 2021
2022 Planting Decisions, Nitrogen Fertilizer, Crop Prices, farmdocDaily.illinois.edu, Oct. 19, 2021
Breaking down 2021’s higher fertilizer prices, aei.com, Oct. 11, 2021
Big drop in farm income forecast […]

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Supporting Documents for Farm and Food File, Week of October 24, 2021

Background information for “Running with the Big Deere”
Farm and Food File for the week beginning Sunday, October 24, 2021
Deere workers going on strike after rejecting wage deal, cnn.com, Oct. 14, 2021
More than 10,000 Deere workers strike, Washington Post, Oct. 14, 2021
Deere & Co. corporate website
A look inside Bill Gates’ stock portfolio, thewealthadvisor.com, May 6, 2021
ARK […]

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