Jim Goodman
Jim Goodman is a third-generation dairy farmer from Wonewoc, Wisconsin.
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Views Friday, October 30, 2020 How Decades of Corporate-Friendly Farm Policies Wrecked Rural America—And Paved the Way for Trump My father was born in 1903 and in his 92 years he saw the transformation of farming — from horses to tractors, hand labor to mechanization — that occurred in the 20 th century. I farmed that same Wisconsin land for 40 years and in that span of time I, too, saw dramatic changes in the... Read more |
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Views Tuesday, September 08, 2020 The Party Formerly Known as Republican “The Republican National Committee (RNC) enthusiastically supports President Trump and continues to reject the policy positions of the Obama-Biden Administration, as well as those espoused by the Democratic National Committee today … [and that] the Republican Party has and will continue to... Read more |
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Views Saturday, May 23, 2020 Make a Resilient, Localized Food System Part of the Next Stimulus From wasted food to the exploitation of farmworkers, the COVID-19 pandemic has made it painfully clear that this country’s food system must be changed. Politicians must pass further stimulus legislation that includes policy to reform our inflexible, consolidated food system to prepare for future... Read more |
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Views Friday, May 08, 2020 That This System Would Fail Was Entirely Predictable As we face empty grocery shelves the fragility of our highly consolidated food system has become clear during the crisis of COVID-19. We see a market that lacks the resiliency to shift supply lines and fill those shelves, but also a food system that does not provide (and in most cases never has... Read more |
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Views Wednesday, February 19, 2020 Bloomberg Won’t, As They Say, Play Well in Peoria, But Then, Neither Should Trump It seems that having money, plenty of money, must somehow bestow a certain sense of omniscience upon the very wealthiest in society, making some of them feel that they are uniquely qualified to hold political office. It would appear, unfortunately, that there are many voters and media outlets who... Read more |
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Views Thursday, August 22, 2019 Farmers Need a Bill of Rights On January 11, 1944 in his annual State of the Union Address, President Roosevelt noted that while the Constitution guaranteed a set of political rights, they were in some respects inadequate. To ensure equality, Roosevelt proposed an Economic Bill of Rights that would guarantee: Full employment... Read more |
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Views Monday, June 17, 2019 Current Farm Crisis Offers Opportunity For Change JFK, as it turns out, was not correct when he noted 60 years ago that the word 'crisis' is a combination of the Chinese brush strokes meaning danger and opportunity. While he was linguistically incorrect, we get what he was saying. A crisis situation can be the impetus for change, an opportunity to... Read more |
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Views Tuesday, May 28, 2019 An Anti-Trust Reboot Could Give Democrats Traction in Rural America Democrats need to study history and follow the example of Theodore Roosevelt , in other words, become “trust busters.” Roosevelt was a Republican and his willingness to confront the monopolists of his day earned him scorn from some, yet enough support to win the Presidency in 1904. Eventually, the... Read more |
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Views Wednesday, April 17, 2019 Don’t Fall for the Hype of Free Trade Agreements Approval of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA 2.0 also known USMCA) will do little to reverse the problems of the NAFTA trade agreement of 1994. Nothing in the proposed replacement agreement will prevent job outsourcing, nor is there any part of the agreement that would reverse our... Read more |
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Views Sunday, December 23, 2018 Dairy Farming is Dying. After 40 Years, I’m Done. After 40 years of dairy farming, I sold my herd of cows this summer. The herd had been in my family since 1904; I know all 45 cows by name. I couldn’t find anyone who wanted to take over our farm — who would? Dairy farming is little more than hard work and possible economic suicide. A grass-based... Read more |