u like food? u like eating that food? u want 2 know the real dill about ag? ;)
WELL GIDDY UP! This week we have incredible crop scientist, Sarah Taber, on the ep! Check it out as she eviscerates any and all agricultural myths u may have in your brain!
Theme music as always by Brandon Payton Carrillo
Links for the people
Broiler chicken farmers make way more money that anyone admits:
https://www.ers.usda.gov/amber-waves/2014/august/financial-risks-and-incomes-in-contract-broiler-production/
Farmers in general make more money than non-farming Americans & have since the mid-90s: https://www.ers.usda.gov/topics/farm-economy/farm-household-well-being/income-and-wealth-in-context/ (Translate: yes, working-class farmers exist, and they’re still a lot better off than their non-farming working class peers. Meanwhile white-collar farmers, who also exist, are doing quite well.)
The USDA does a farm census every 10 years or so; the 1920 one gets referenced the most often bc it was the high-water mark for number of farmers in the US. (Which folks take to mean it’s “normal” except it wasn’t- farmer numbers were artificially inflated by super high food prices during World War I driving a lot of speculative investment & one last gasp of homesteading in places where there’s no way it…
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