By Carson and Rodolfo

Volume 3.14, Issue 69

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Corporate Agriculture
INSIDE THIS ISSUE:
Corporate Farming

New Federal Farming Grants

Agriculture credit companies

announce merger

Consequences

Corporate
farming on the rise!
Farmers moved west
to make their
fortunes after the
passing of the
Homestead Act in
1862. When they
did, they bought new
state-of-the-art
equipment to
improve yields. This
expensive new
equipment meant
high mortgages. To
make these
mortgages, the
farmers needed to
produce as much as
they could to pay.
This caused food
prices to drop and
busts or panics, this
meant farmers got
less and couldn't pay

New Federal Farming Grants

The purpose of
these new farming
grants is to cut
agricultural pollution
in the Connecticut
River Valley and the
Thames River

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New Federal Farming Grants Pt. 2

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The overall USDA

program is sending
out $372 million in
new conservation
grants involving 115
different programs in
states across the
nation.
$10 million of the new
grants will be used
within the Connecticut

New Federal Farming Grants Pt. 3

Another $400,000 will
also be used for a
program at the
University of
Connecticut to help
that farmers will
continue to have an
adequate water
supplies when the
climate changes.
A third USDA grant of

What are grants?

A grant is money you do not have to pay back to the government
(state or federal) or an organization, unless you do not fulfill the
goals of the grants.

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Agriculture credit companies announce merger

Two companies
named Amarillo and
Lubbock agriculture
credit have decided to
combined $1.3 billion
in assets and merge
together. Both
companies have
agreed to merger,
Agriculture credit
institutions offer
financing for real

Agriculture credit companies announce merger

Benefits of merging
company can reduce
many of its expenses.
Budgets for things
like marketing might
be trimmed, while the
new, larger company
enjoys greater
purchasing power,
which lowers the
costs of raw materials
and other necessities

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Consequences

Concentrates market share among a small handful of firms, removing price

discipline along the supply chain through vertical integration, resulting in

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noncompetitive markets that ultimately hurt consumers and producers alike

Creates environmental disaster through excessive pesticide use, soil erosion,

genetic engineering, monoculture, and concentration of animal waste

Eliminates the livelihoods of small producers in the US

Endangers the public health of communities and consumers through food-

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borne diseases, chemical residues and the potential effects of irradiation

Causes lobbyists to shape the U.S. farm policy in favor of large-scale agro-

industry
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impacts everyone,

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not just farmers. All

people purchase
food, so corporate
agriculture can
greatly impact our
nation. Rising food
prices can cause big
problems
economically. These
large companies can
run family farms out