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Farms and personal finance with Katy Stevick [TRAILER] Apr 26, 2023

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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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The History of US Agriculture: How Jim Crow paid off for the Midwestern family farm Apr 13, 2023

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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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Right to Repair [TRAILER] Apr 11, 2023

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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

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Carolina Rice with Dr. Tim Fritz Feb 27, 2023

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Dr. Tim Fritz, historian at Mt. St. Mary's