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‘We doubt these bureaucrats knew enough to comprehend this rule’s demands on agriculture. They certainly don’t understand weather and the cattle business.’ – Steve Dittmer.
Comment/Columns, Free Market Reflections

Dittmer: Woke and green turns ridiculous

Free Market Reflections with Steve Dittmer

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In the spring of 2021, we wrote columns for Agribusiness Freedom Foundation chronicling the activist left’s progress in cowing major U.S. corporations into “woke” philosophies, including those on animal welfare, green climate change theology, apologies for so-called racist pasts, offending gender identities and lots of irrelevant or downright obstructive actions, to corporations making money. With […] Read more
Dittmer: Dodging government interference and processing facts
Comment/Columns, Free Market Reflections

Dittmer: Dodging government interference and processing facts

Free Market Reflections with Steve Dittmer

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Two bills, one that would insert federal government agencies into the cattle marketing business and one that would create a Special Investigators unit within USDA, have been voted out of committee in the U.S. Senate. Both bills were opposed by National Cattlemen’s Beef Association and many free-market-oriented cattle producers, especially those participating in branded, differentiated […] Read more
Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. speaks as Senate President Juan Miguel Zubiri and House Speaker Martin Romualdez applaud during his first State of the Nation Address, in Quezon City, Metro Manila, Philippines, July 25, 2022. Photo: Aaron Favila/Pool via Reuters
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Philippines’ Marcos lays out ambitious policy agenda with farm sector in focus

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Manila | Reuters – Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr on Monday outlined ambitious plans for his six-year term in office that focus on fiscal management, infrastructure upgrades and turning the long-neglected farm sector into an engine of growth. The Philippines is beset with numerous challenges, from soaring prices, food shortages, poverty and inequities in education, but Marcos, the […] Read more
Politicians and bureaucrats talk about making the supply chain “resilient.” What they mean is, they want the industry to be able to continue no matter what happens. This could be accomplished, but it come at a huge cost.
Comment/Columns, Free Market Reflections

Dittmer: Congressional hearings reveal little and much

Free Market Reflections with Steve Dittmer

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With the Biden administration drowning in bad poll results from bad policies, this is a bad time to be in its crosshairs. Both the House and Senate held beef industry hearings in April. The Senate “examined” the Fischer-Grassley bill seeking to mandate regional minimums on negotiated cash trade. They also referenced another bill calling for […] Read more
The relationship between politics, crime and oligarchy is a tangled web.
Comment/Columns, Vet advice

Oligarchs debase EU agriculture

Vet Advice with Dr. Ron Clarke

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A new week started on the first day of spring 2018. The collection of cars and half tons in the parking lot at the local burger joint meant the “Circle of Wisdom” had already started their daily debate, enriched with weekend news stories and beginning stages of sports playoffs. The Circle is a cluster of […] Read more
One of many resolutions to come out of the recent NCBA meeting was support for improvements to livestock marketing reports.
Comment/Columns, Free Market Reflections

Dittmer: After struggle, NCBA agrees on mandates

Free Market Reflections with Steve Dittmer

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The mood of this year’s National Cattlemen’s Beef Association (NCBA) live cattle marketing committee meeting was a lot different than the summer meeting in 2020. That 2020 meeting lasted over six hours, involved multiple roll call votes among affiliate groups and revealed a big chasm between the mostly cow-calf and the cattle feeder organizations. The […] Read more
Dittmer: Toxic brews of do-gooders, politicians and bureaucrats
Comment/Columns, Free Market Reflections

Dittmer: Toxic brews of do-gooders, politicians and bureaucrats

Free Market Reflections with Steve Dittmer

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The problem with politics is that relative conservatives just want to be left alone to do things without unnecessary interference. Leftist activists want to save the world — or your world — by coercing behaviour. Which is why leftist ag groups and their enablers — leftist, big-government politicians and bureaucrats — keep trying to force […] Read more
Even a non-farming Californian ought to question why less “cruelty” should produce fewer baby pigs and more dead sows. – Steve Dittmer.
Comment/Columns, Free Market Reflections

Looking forward at progress

Free Market Reflections with Steve Dittmer

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Sometimes in crazy times, it’s good to back up and look at the cards showing and your hole cards. Economically speaking, inflation is one key factor. A key inflation driver is fossil fuel costs. It enters in every phase of beef production beyond our magic photosynthesis machine — the cow. As both major producers and […] Read more

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