John Ikerd
Farm Policies for Sustainability
The essentials of sustainability may seem too philosophical or abstract to be of any real value until they are applied to real world...
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John Ikerd
- Nov 10, 2021
- 6 min
Successful Small Family Farms: Myth or Reality?
Someone recently forwarded me a link to an opinion piece by freelance writer Sarah Mock that begins: “I tried to prove that small family...
John Ikerd
- Nov 1, 2021
- 4 min
The Values of Sustainability
Everything eventually boils down to economics! How many times have we heard this assertion—as if it were settled truth? Farmers need an...
John Ikerd
- Aug 14, 2021
- 5 min
The Economic Realities of CAFOs
I don’t like watching videos of my own presentations, but I force myself to do it from time to time. I know how I feel about...
John Ikerd
- Jan 21, 2021
- 3 min
A Green New Deal for Family Farms & Rural Communities
The "Green New Deal"[i] has been systematically demonized by corporate propaganda targeting rural America. Rural people have been led to...
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