This video is on point. We're deporting people so they can be brought into the more easily exploitable H2A system. We already did this with the Bracero Program in the 50s. We don't need to do it again, we need something new.

Deport and Replace. Again and again. Surprised it took this long to do it. Even worse conditions for H2A workers and lower wages for citizen workers.

US farmers are saying they "just need temporary help, until things get better."

Here's the thing. US farm exports- which are mostly soy- CANNOT get better.

Other countries expanded their soy industries to fill China's demand.

We've walled ourselves out of the global market, folks. This is it.

As Steve Williams waited for federal funds to take his flooded farmland out of use, his bills didn’t stop.

His family could do nothing and watch their farm operation fail, or keep trying to grow crops on land they knew would yield little.

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I'm so tired of hearing farmers say Americans don't want to work. I know plenty of people who want to farm, but want health insurance and a stable paycheck more. Consolidated corporations exploit farmers who then exploit workers. Changing H2A won't fix an exploitative system. We need bigger changes.

NEW: The H-2A visa program has failed to protect migrant farmworkers from wage theft, forced labor, violence and death.

Here’s what experts, lawyers and advocates think would make the program safer.

By @maxblau.bsky.social

Israel bulldozed a Palestinian seed bank. They're starving Gaza and this is yet another attack on the Palestinians' means of survival.

"Destroying a national seed bank is an act of erasure"

This is beyond dumb. They're cutting SNAP but giving large commodities farmers $50 billion in subsidies (which they don't need!). And plan to cut even more funding for new/small farms and climate resilience in the Farm Bill. More consolidation leading to even more risk to our food system.

Long #COVID19 expert: “We’re not taking any steps to reduce the risks of a nationwide epidemic… Your risk of going on to develop long COVID increases slightly with each infection… I’m really concerned about the overall effect this is going to have on national health.”

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Everyone seems to love joking about egg prices, but you know what isn't funny?

Price gouging.

Monopolists are using the avian flu to price gouge while screwing consumers and contract farmers.
farmaction.us/exposed-bill...

If the CFPB didn't decide last year that its mission required it to regulate Big Tech's entry into banking, it wouldn't be shut down today. We know that because Republicans in Congress are working now to make sure the agency can *never* go after Big Tech.
prospect.org/power/2025-0...

Corporatization of farm land is going to destroy wetland protections. When farmland floods because there are no wetlands to store excess water we'll all be paying the bill.
www.iaenvironment.org/newsroom/wat...

Lots of folks will say FAFO, but this nonpayment will do real damage to already struggling farm systems and the environment. Freezes are mostly for desperately needed improvements in conservation practices that help both farms and the environment in the long term.
www.reuters.com/world/us/usd...

New episode of Organized Money is out! We've got farmer Jeff Bender to tell us about how CAFOs and monocrops and the squeezing of family farms magnify risks to the food system.
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