This episode, Cory Doctorow comes on to talk about how profits are political: individualistic DIY solutions aren't enough, and it takes large-scale political changes to level the playing field. We talk about how rank-and-file people can mobilize to advocate for ourselves, even when we're up against food and tech giants that seem unbeatable. • Menti…

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There's a saying in food justice: "There's plenty of food to feed everyone! The problem is distribution." But when we talk about reforming the food system, farms get all the spotlight. We rarely focus on distribution- even though we know it's the key to solving hunger. How does food get from the farm to people? Who decides where crops should go? Wo…

This is a short clip of a bonus episode for Patreon followers. Subscribe to Farm to Taber on Patreon for the full episode! • Today we talk contract broiler farming! This is the type of farming famous for "giant barns full of chickens that the farmers don't own." If you've ever wondered why farmers would keep farming in a way that "everyone just kno…

I ran into the Nightingales a few years ago on Twitter. They've spent years working to make jobs more humane (and even succeeding!) It quickly became clear that we're running into a lot of the same workplace problems in our respective industries. But how? I'm in agriculture, and they're in tech! What's going on? We talk about how sucky jobs in any …

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When sustainability advocates talk about Indigenous agriculture, it's often framed as folksy, timeless, hyperlocal, and incompatible with the modern world. Nothing could be further from the truth! Historian Susan Sleeper-Smith joins us to talk about the reality of how the Miami, Shawnee, Haudenosaunee, and other Indigenous communities in North Amer…

F2T is on a mission to prove that the global grain trade is super interesting actually. This episode features grain futures, and bugs! Wall Street! How the grain trade gave birth to both laissez-faire economics and the French Revolution! Full episode is available on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/farmtotaber Transcript Hosted on Acast. See acast.…

In this episode, Maria joins us to talk about what really happened in the 2022 panic over food supplies. We're gonna debunk food supply myths that actually make food insecurity worse, and we're gonna make grain futures and crop yield data FUN. Transcript Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.…

Farm to Taber is back! We've moved to Acast because it's easier to do certain podcast-y things there. Farm to Taber's now on Apple podcasts, Google podcasts, Spotify, and all the usual podcast outlets. Patreon & Kofi followers get monthly bonus episodes.RSS: https://feeds.acast.com/public/shows/63d97cdef2393300101e05e2Website: https://shows.acast.c…

Accounts of the US food system take it for granted that it used to all be nice little family farms, until agribusiness suddenly changed it all in the 20th century. But corn monoculture, feedlots, and cheap bulk commodities didn't come out of nowhere in modern times- they've always been the core of US agriculture! This episode traces the origins of …

This is a trailer for a bonus episode. Join Farm to Taber on Patreon for the full episode here: patreon.com/farmtotaber It's so easy to think of agriculture and finance as a large-scale, impersonal realm: import-export balances, federally-backed loans, and enormous capital flows. And those are all important! But let's take a step back and remember …

Episode cover photo: “Roy Merriot getting ready to move a transportable house. He is a tenant of a 160 acre loan company farm which has recently been sold, and is now holding a ‘quitting farm’ sale. This is the third farm he has lost in the last ten years.” Russell Lee, photographer, December 1936, from Farm Security Administration – Office of War …

A former John Deere combine repair tech joins on to talk right to repair! For the full episode, join me on Patreon: patreon.com/farmtotaber Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Transcript Dr. Tim Fritz, historian at Mt. St. Mary's 1940s home video of Carolina rice workers Stono rebellion Photo of rice crew from Library of Congress, "Rice harvest at Mulberry Plantation, Berkeley County South Carolina." Bonus episodes on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.…

The first bonus episode digs into why there's so much agrarianism in scifi, and what is it doing there? Full episode is on Patreon! patreon.com/farmtotaber Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Today we're going to talk cleaning up the food system. If you've been listening to Farm to Taber long, you probably know I think a lot of the "save the world" branding in the sustainability industry is just greenwashing. I think the Equitable Food Initiative is legit. We're going to talk about how it works.…

Rebecca Seidel is a young farmer, making a way for herself to stay in agriculture by making cheese. Making cheese, butter, and other dairy products at the farmstead level has been women's work for hundreds of years. In addition to cheese, Rebecca serves up info on dairy life, economics, and what dairying has to do with feminism: a LOT.This episode …

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Rebecca Seidel is a young farmer, making a way for herself to stay in agriculture by making cheese. Making cheese, butter, and other dairy products at the farmstead level has been women's work for hundreds of years. In addition to cheese, Rebecca serves up info on dairy life, economics, and what dairying has to do with feminism: a LOT.I know I said…

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Tamar Haspel is a journalist, oyster farmer, and fellow traveler on the "looking past the PR into what really happens in agriculture" road. This one was so fun to do.Oleh Farm to Taber Podcast

Josh Specht is a historian of beef. We talk about how ranching started out dominated by corporations & family ranches took over later, the rise of the Chicago meatpackers, and how the beef industry is still shaped more by what it's used to doing thanks to its history than by what makes sense today.Oleh Farm to Taber Podcast

Jordan Hoewischer is a multigenerational family farmer & works for the Ohio Farm Bureau, working with farms to conserve soil and protect local watersheds. Some of his work can be seen here at the Ohio Farm Bureau website.Oleh Farm to Taber Podcast

Deb Krol is a journalist from the Xolon (Jolon) Salinan tribe of Central California. Now based in the US Southwest, Debra covers a lot of indigenous agriculture.That includes the traditional scale that most folks would probably think of, but there are also a lot of larger Native-owned modern operations that make up a major part of the US food syste…