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Dr Sarah Taber
SarahTaber_bww
Since ag twitter is a racist hot mess, this seems like a great time to remind everyone:1) The median farmer is nearly a millionaire! They clock in at $800K net
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#Resist Trump's USDA
altusda
Just want to flag that the Politico reporting that Biden switched from Heitkamp to Vilsack b/c of criticism from @WhipClyburn doesn't fully make sense on it's own, but especially doesn't
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Jake Tapper
jaketapper
Two seconds here to look at how something tweeted by the president (or more likely someone in his team) might seem random, but isn’t. Exhibit A: https://twitter.com/realdonaldtrump/status/1275951862269829121 2/ This tweet
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LibertySavage
AxelSavage4
1) Thread: "Fascism in America?": Many people misunderstand what Fascism is. They think it's the iron-fisted oppression of the people by agents of the government. However, that's not what Fascism
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Nathan Donley
Nathan_Donley
Oooof! The 2017 USGS pesticide use data came out recently and it's not good. Just look at what happened the first year dicamba was approved on GE cropsUSGS makes high-end
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NotTheMacAnon
NotTheMacAnon1
The USDA removed the table showing the Oxygen Radical Absorbance Capacity (ORAC) of Selected Foods Release 2 (2010) table due to the lack of evidence that the antioxidant level present
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Break It Up
BreakItUp3
Washington DC should be broken up. ALL departments should be moved to red/purple states (500K high paying Federal Jobs + 1M high paying private-sector jobs that sell to govt).DC wants
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Chris Saunders
CsaundersVT
Last week Sen Leahy officially became Chair of Appropriations. Plenty of recent general stories on the power #VT will yield in spending matters this Congress. Curious how federal $ will
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Thomas Martin
ThomasforBC
One quote from Dr. Wood resonates with me:"We are making the decision based on only a limited amount of research"This seldom enters the public discourse around forestry, but we're attempting
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Silvia Secchi
ProfSecchi
It's #ThrowbackThursday! Today: New Deal ag conservation was ancillary to ag production/income support and that's still the case. This is a problem b/c - When the going gets good, it's
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Laurie Garrett
Laurie_Garrett
While America's obsessed w/elections, Europe is freaking out about a mutant form of #SARSCoV2 in mink animals & people: Denmark seals off 7 municipalities in north Jutland. Train & bus
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Dave Guarino
allafarce
One thing I hope for with new leadership overseeing safety net programs like SNAP at the federal level is that focus is given not just to expanding eligibility (a common
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JP
HealthPakStream
So I promised @/CDGuanzon a #PhytoFriday thread about GMOs and like, why I hate/loathe/detest with every fiber of my seeing 'GMO' everywhere and everyone gets their knickers in a twist
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Joe "Dr. Doomscroller" Bak-Coleman
jbakcoleman
Anti-vaccine arguments are ridiculous. Here they are, but with food. A . 2/x Eating food can lead to anaphylaxis. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4165304/#:~:text=In%20food%2Dallergic%20people%2C%20fatal,2.71%20per%20million%20
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Dr. Adele Hite
ahhite
Okay, so what happened in/around 1980 that changed? We have always ever preferred cheap/tasty/convenient food. That's not something new that started in 1980. BUT: "cheap/tasty/convenient" used to mean a fried
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Ag of The World
AGofTheWorld
My wife @RanaeDietzel grew up on a small farm near Radcliffe, IA (20 miles from here). Her parents have 2 1100-head hog finishing barns, 20 acres of pasture, and about
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