Bill Gates Is America’s Largest Private Owner of Farmland
Bill Gates now owns more farmland than anyone else in the United States, as the tech tycoon has quietly purchased 242,000 acres of farmland in several states across the country.
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South African President Insists Farm Murders ‘Are Not Ethnic Cleansing’
South African president Cyril Ramaphosa has insisted that farm murders are not “ethnic cleansing” after a grisly torture-murder in Free State led to ‘Boer Lives Matter’ protesters marching on a courthouse to get at the suspects.
Washington Post: Migrant Labor Spreads Coronavirus
Low-wage migrant farm workers are spreading coronavirus through the southeast United States as they pick crops by hand, so the fix is more testing and medical care, not more labor-saving automation, according to the Washington Post.
‘Pick For Britain’ Farm Recruiter Lists ‘Romanian or Bulgarian’ Fluency as Job Requirement
An agri-business advertising for jobs under the government’s ‘Pick For Britain’ farm job scheme for furloughed workers required applicants to speak a foreign language to pick vegetables and fruit.
Watch–Trump: Immigration Pause Will Not Apply to H-2A Visa Workers
President Trump revealed on Tuesday that his executive order pausing most legal immigration in the midst of the Chinese coronavirus crisis will not keep farmers from fast-tracking foreign workers into the country.
Watch: Americans’ Machines vs. Stoop-Labor Farm Migrants
Progressives romanticize the nation’s shameful reliance on stoop-labor migrants to harvest food for wealthy Americans, even during the coronavirus epidemic, says Mark Krikorian, director of the Center for Immigration Studies.
Trump Country: 57% of Farmers Support China Tariffs
A survey of farmers in Iowa, Illinois, and Minnesota found that 57 percent somewhat or strongly support tariffs on Chinese goods
California Farms Hike U.S. Wages, Increasingly Use Automation Thanks to Shortage of Foreign Workers
California farms are hiking wages for U.S. workers and increasingly relying on automation and robots thanks to a shortage of foreign workers in President Donald Trump’s “Hire American” economy.
Donald Trump’s Migration Policy Boosts Farm Productivity, Wages
Farms are increasingly buying labor-saving machinery — and raising farmworkers’ wages — because they are facing a shortage of illegal migrant workers, says an article in the New York Times.
Carney: The ‘Soy-Mageddon’ Did Not Happen, American Farmers Stuck with Republicans
Predictions that farmers targeted by China with tariffs would turn against Donald Trump in the midterms have turned out to be nonsense.
Poll: 79% of Farmers Sticking with Trump
American farmers have been hit by China’s retaliatory tariffs on U.S. soybeans. Nonetheless, farmers are sticking by the president and his Make American Great Again agenda.
Farm Prices Fall Again, Defying Anti-Trump Predictions of Higher Food Prices
Farm deflation could pressure the Fed to back off on interest rates.
