Feckless on tariffs, high on Ballys and Rolexes

THE Federation of Free Farmers (FFF) is host to a serious policy shop on agricultural issues. Unlike some of the university-based intellectual pretenders whose side gig is to shill for the mendacious William Dar, the secretary of Agriculture. Also unlike the supposed farmer-representatives in Congress, whose sense is generally this — a pompous, 10-sentence press release is the equivalent of an Einsteinian output on the most critical agriculture policy discussions.

The peasant group I am affiliated with is more focused on the mortar-and-brick issues of agriculture such as what to plant and what to raise to earn enough for survival, and I am the first to admit that we fall short on the research and study front. Right now, we rely — like most small peasant groups — on the FFF to raise the right questions and the serious questions about the failings, big and small, of government on agriculture.