Entries from March 2008

March 26, 2008

What’s Cheaper: Bread or Farmland?

There’s a reason that a loaf of whole wheat bread is about what it costs for a compact car. Farmland prices were up 14 percent in 2006. Now figures are in for 2007 and guess what? Post another 23 percent rise in farmland values.
Oh, praise be the Energy Bill that slathers subsidies to corporate farmers [...]