Enjoy this 1940 Rural Electrification Administration documentary on the drudgery of rural work before electricity and how REA cooperatives and the New Deal transforms the lives of farmers. Good stuff..
California refuses to deal with its water shortages in any kind of serious way. It's so bad that even the articles yelling at California about how to take it seriously.
Big Agriculture is nothing but the Tea Party + agricultural subsidies.
Thanks to an unfortunate combination of factors, Maryland has elected a Republican governor. They are already getting what they asked for. Larry Hogan has already withdrawn from regulations of phosphorous.
The Los Angeles Times has another installment in its outstanding series of labor exploitation on the Mexican vegetable farms that supply U.S. markets. This piece is on the rampant use.
Imagine if this was the standard for regulating production rather than the exception that took a decade of hard struggle to win: Growers in the Fair Food Program are prohibited.
The food industry, along with the apparel industry, has long led the way in labor exploitation. Throughout the 20th century, agricultural interests went to extreme lengths to keep labor costs.
So this is kind of an interesting story about a big hop farm in Idaho. I read it because I like beer. But I also read it to see how.
