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    1. A lesson for us from the Pawnee and Sioux people

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    Collection:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
    Contributers:
    Looker, Dan (author)
    Format:
    Commentary
    Publication Date:
    2000-05
    Published:
    USA
    Location:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C26423
    Journal Title:
    Successful Farming
    Journal Title Details:
    98(7) : 15
    Notes:
    "Farmers' lack of market power is the real enemy, so farmers and ranchers must work together to gain bargaining power, because, without it, independent farmers have little hope of survival." Mentions issue of farm organizations, agricultural trade and commodity groups misrepresenting their interests to Congress and policy makers by posing as the family farmer.

    3. Bureau of Lost Management: Narrow interests now dominate the agency's direction

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    Collection:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
    Contributers:
    Kenna, Jim (author)
    Format:
    Commentary
    Publication Date:
    2020-07
    Published:
    USA
    Location:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 201 Document Number: D11728
    Journal Title:
    High Country News
    Journal Title Details:
    52(7) : 42
    Notes:
    Online from publisher., Author observes how the U.S. Bureau of Land Management is losing sight of the traditional mission of maintaining public lands and passing them intact to the next generation. "The BLM's mission is not ideological and does no give preference to certain land users. Its legal mandate calls for managing public lands for a variety of uses, treating energy generation and conservation equally. But now, the agency is losing sight of that mission."

    4. Cultivating a taste for mergers

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    Collection:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
    Contributers:
    Birnbaum, Jeffrey H. (author)
    Format:
    Commentary
    Publication Date:
    2005-11-14
    Published:
    USA
    Location:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 147 Document Number: C23408
    Journal Title:
    Washington Post (Washington, DC)
    Journal Title Details:
    : D01
    Notes:
    Comments on trends toward consolidation among food-related trade associations.

    9. Right-wing business in farmer's overalls : the American Farm Bureau Federation

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    Collection:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
    Contributers:
    Johnson, Scotty (author), Husseini, Sam (author), and Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting (FAIR) New York City, New York
    Format:
    Commentary
    Publication Date:
    2000-09
    Published:
    USA
    Location:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 128 Document Number: C19109
    Journal Title:
    Extra!
    Journal Title Details:
    September/October 2000
    Notes:
    2 pages