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Taking Power From the People: A Big Ag Playbook | Ambrook Research

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Rob Larew, president of the National Farmers Union (NFU), contends that farmer stress is on the rise. “That stress is very tied to the financial pressures that farmers feel today,” he said. “As the amount we receive for the goods that we are selling continues to go down, while the inputs that we are having to buy go up, that is a stress, right?” Read Next Why Supermarket Monopolies Are Bad for the Farm Economy Has the Time for Checkoff Reform Finally Arrived? Why Does the Farm Bill Consider Fruits and Vegetables “Specialty Crops?” Larew has a view into the system that few others do: NFU membership totals almost 200,000 American family farmers, ranchers, and rural residents. He notes that the psychological pressures farmers face have their provenance in the financial constrictions that shape their daily lives. Regardless of what they produce or where they live, many farmers are encountering diminished choice as a result of agricultural monopolies. Fewer, and bigger, actors set the terms

In American agriculture, a few companies call the shots. Austin Frerick’s first book shows that we may know even less about them than we realize. Rob Larew, president of the National Farmers Union (NFU), contends that farmer stress is on the rise. “That stress is very tied to the financial pressures that farmers feel today,” he said. “As the amount we receive for the goods that we are selling continues to go down, while the inputs that we are having to buy go up, that is a stress, right?” Read Next Why Supermarket Monopolies Are Bad for the Farm Economy Has the Time for Checkoff Reform Finally

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