Click the EDUCATION button at the top of the page for the report compiled by Rocky Mountain Farmers Union in preparation for the Governor’s Agricultural Summit held February 28, 2001.
Once on the education page, you may click the underlined word ‘read’ in the last paragrapgh for the complete report (PDF file), including charts and graphs.

By Dave Carter
I understand a museum has opened to commemorate some of history’s worst inventions. The Edsel is prominently displayed in the lobby. I’m sure New Coke and Crystal Pepsi also occupy places of honor.
I just hope they save a spot for the 1996 Farm Bill.
The 1996 Farm Bill, you may recall, was passed by […]

Tom Lauridson
Vice President
Rocky Mountain Farmers Union
As we begin to frame debate around the 2002 farm bill, the farm community must raise important issues to decision makers. Issues, that in the end, need to focus on a primary question – Do we really need to save family farms?
We hear more and more that bigger is better […]

By Dave Carter
The conventional wisdom guiding modern agricultural policy is starting to look kind of stupid.
Traditional economists, policymakers and agribusiness executives have long trumpeted the “efficiency” of a modern agricultural system in which independent agricultural producers must step aside in favor of large-scale industrialized food-producing operations.
These respected experts promised repeatedly that the new globalized […]