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Sarah Taber

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Deep dives on agriculture, the food system, and money.

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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.



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Ben Barnes, Shawnee historian and elected tribal leader


Naomi Wu's recent silencing by the Chinese government: her announcement on Twitter and an explainer



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Additional bonus reading: Accounting for Slavery by Dr. Caitlin Rosenthal goes into depth on how much of modern business/industrial management practice comes from the methods originally developed to supervise enslaved people on plantations.



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10/03/23 • 55 min

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10/28/19 • 61 min

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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 industry are a choice, making them not suck is a process, and what that process looks like.


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Dr. Zeynep Ton's book "The Good Jobs Strategy"


The World's Best Newsletter


Nightingales on social media:

LinkedIn: Melissa, Johnathan

Twitter (RIP): Johnathan, Melissa



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08/01/23 • 88 min

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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? Wow do those decisions trickle down to the place where most Americans get their food- retail grocery stores?


Errol Schweizer joins the pod to talk food systems, reform, and how some of the most lauded food reformers in America missed their goals by ignoring nuts-and-bolts distribution issues. If you like nerdy deep dives into topics that don't normally get much attention, this episode is for you! This interview is a two-part series. The second half releases on Farm to Taber's Patreon later this month.


Errol Schweizer writes and podcasts about food systems, based on over 20 years in food handling and distribution.


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09/04/23 • 45 min

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08/15/23 • 15 min

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 knows" makes them poor, this episode digs into why!


Joining us today is @Woofpickler- farm kid, ag business owner, & former combine tech. We'll have a good time pulling some themes out of the contract broiler business and tying them into the ag sector at large.


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Info sources we use for this episode:

2018 sociology thesis on broiler farming


USDA report on broiler farmer finances: the source for the finance data used in this podcast. USDA doesn't do deep dives on broiler farm finances very often; changes since the data were collected are addressed in the episode.



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08/15/23 • 15 min

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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 Information Photographs, Yale University Photogrammar Project. Available at https://photogrammar.org/photo/fsa1997021314/PP


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Full bibliography


Main sources in this episode:


SC food imports in 1917: Kirkendall, Richard S. 1988. Henry A. Wallace’s Turn Toward the New Deal, 1921-1924. The Annals of Iowa 49(3):221-239. Accessed 3 Mar 2022. Available at https://pubs.lib.uiowa.edu/annals-of-iowa/article/10699/galley/119275/view/


The Rise and Fall of Pellagra. 2018. Karen Clay, Ethan Schmick, Werner Troesken. National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper 23730. Available at http://www.nber.org/papers/w23730


Shu-Ching Lee. 1947. The Theory of the Agricultural Ladder. Agricultural History 21(1):53-61.

https://www.jstor.org/stable/3739772?seq=1#metadata_info_tab_contents


Possession and Power: The Legal Culture of Tenancy in the United States, 1800-1920. Adam Jacob Wolkoff. Dissertation, Rutgers, 2015.



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04/13/23 • 110 min

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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 that 95% of US farms are family-owned. That means the dominant financial consideration in US agriculture- what farms grow, how, whether they keep farming at all- is personal finance.


Financial planner Katy Stevick joins us to talk household finance. This is her first podcast so she's a little shy, but she brought the facts and we had a good time! There's so much more to say about in this topic, it was great to have her to help lay out the groundwork on how household finance shape business practices, and we look forward to having her back for more deep dives on farms and finance.



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04/26/23 • 11 min

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06/15/23 • 6 min

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


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06/15/23 • 6 min

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02/21/23 • 8 min

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



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How many episodes does Farm to Taber have?

Farm to Taber currently has 49 episodes available.

What topics does Farm to Taber cover?

The podcast is about Society & Culture, Podcasts, Finance, Science, Agriculture and Food.

What is the most popular episode on Farm to Taber?

The episode title 'DIY isn't enough: systematic change with Cory Doctorow' is the most popular.

What is the average episode length on Farm to Taber?

The average episode length on Farm to Taber is 39 minutes.

How often are episodes of Farm to Taber released?

Episodes of Farm to Taber are typically released every 7 days.

When was the first episode of Farm to Taber?

The first episode of Farm to Taber was released on Apr 20, 2018.

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